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You can be an analytical, data-driven, steely-eyed businessperson all you like, but business is ultimately about people.

That means business is also about emotions: yours and those of the people you interact with every day.

Incredibly successful people make a huge difference not just in their own lives but also in the lives of the people they care about, both professionally and personally.

Here's how:

While supposedly every cloud has a silver lining, when you're truly up against it, silver linings can be really hard to find.

So take a moment and look at your challenges, your roadblocks, your barriers, your--well, everything you face on a daily basis--and see them for what they really are: blessings.

While some people are successful because they're given special opportunities, usually the difference in long-term success and failure lies in what we do when we're faced with adversity, misfortune, and seemingly insurmountable challenges.

Everyone faces the following difficulties; successful people find ways to stay positive, keep working, and eventually overcome what to others seems insurmountable.

And you can too. Today, start changing your perspective.

To meet this goal, a performance management system must provide some way to determine how employees are performing relative to their co-workers. Yet there is currently a trend in HR to “fix” performance management by eliminating the use of methods that compare employees based on performance.

This makes no sense since this is the very thing senior business leaders want from performance management!

The 2 performance management methods:

The business of business isn't really all that complicated. While there is, of course, specific knowledge required for specific industries, this post encapsulates everything that you'll need to know to survive and thrive in the business world.

My fellow columnist here at Inc., Dr Travis Bradberry, wrote an excellent article on the 12 things you should NEVER reveal about yourself at work. It made me consider this from the other side. I have seen all of the mistakes and mis-steps that Dr Bradberry identified, but telling people what to avoid is only half the battle. What can you reveal about yourself that can help you?

I have spoken with some of the most successful people I have had the pleasure to work with, and reflected on two decades of interactions with successful people to come up with what I believe is a comparable list of things you see in winners.