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7 Reasons Why Even The Most Perceptive Sometimes Misread People

One of the most useful abilities is to be able to read other people and identify strengths, or detect personality red flags, such as deceit. Many successful business owners, CEOs, and others possess this talent; they usually don’t need to hire psychics, psychologists, handwriting analysts, astrologers, and other personality analysis

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One Surefire Way to Avoid Misjudging a Person

In business negotiations or everyday life, overestimating or underestimating someone can cause significant loss and wasted time. A sure way to avoid misjudging someone is to find out what he values and what he doesn’t value. In other words, if you know what motivates him, it’s a significant piece of

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The Ideal Partner Possesses These Ten Qualities

Nobody is perfect, but select, dominant personality traits make a person either irresistible, or the opposite, incorrigible. Everyone has his or her own unique challenging personality traits, to various degrees. Severe, dangerous cases aren’t common, but given there’s at least a chance the person may be a problem for you,

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A Common Error That Kills Objectivity

Bias is one of the most common problematic personality traits. The inability to make impartial decisions blocks professional success, and destroys personal relationships. It ranks right up there with other atrocious red-flag personality traits such as indecisiveness, dishonesty, vanity, volatile emotions, lack of analytical ability, and lack of discretion. Bias

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Warning About Decision-making: The Misconception of Choice

The power of choice is sometimes yours, and sometimes not. The erroneous belief that you’re in absolute conscious control of your fate is as outlandish as believing you will live forever. I’m all for inspiration—I generate inspiration every day—but put aside the rhetoric spewed by motivational speakers for a moment

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How to Identify Problem Personalities Before it is Too Late

No matter how high performing an employee, if she’s repeatedly disruptive and problematic to others in the organization, it’s best to fire her. The disruption and demoralization of the staff overshadows revenue generated by the troublemaker. The same approach applies to your personal life; when possible, get rid of problem

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42% of Felony Background Checks are Erroneous

According to the Government Accountability Office, government background checks identifying convicted felons were erroneous at least 42 percent of the time. Thousands of job seekers with clean records have been flagged as criminals. Read more about the problem in this New York Times article. Two other related problems include convicted

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Free Tools You Need to Research People

Whether it’s a potential business partner, employee, contractor, associate, or even romantic interest, you must uncover any red flags relating to that person before it’s too late. The free tools below can help you to reduce the threat to your livelihood, financial well-being, and personal safety.

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