8 Posts found for Author: Tony Schwartz

A culture is simply the collection of beliefs on which people build their behavior. Learning organizations – Peter Senge’s term — classically focus on intellectually oriented issues such as knowledge and expertise. That’s plainly critical, but a true growth culture also focuses on deeper issues connected to how people feel, and how they behave as a result. In a growth culture, people build their … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Tony Schwartz | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Culture, Organizational Behavior

If you want to be really good at something, it’s going to involve relentlessly pushing past your comfort zone, along with frustration, struggle, setbacks and failures. That’s true as long as you want to continue to improve, or even maintain a high level of excellence. The reward is that being really good at something you’ve earned through your own hard work can be immensely satisfying.

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Content: Article | Author: Tony Schwartz | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Personal Development

The most effective way people can change a story is to view it through any of three new lenses, which are all alternatives to seeing the world from the victim perspective. With the reverse lens, for example, people ask themselves, “What would the other person in this conflict say and in what ways might that be true?” With the long lens they ask, “How will … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Catherine McCarthy, Tony Schwartz | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Decision Making, Storytelling, Thought

To access the energy of the human spirit, people need to clarify priorities and establish accompanying rituals in three categories: doing what they do best and enjoy most at work; consciously allocating time and energy to the areas of their lives—work, family, health, service to others—they deem most important; and living their core values in their daily behaviors.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Catherine McCarthy, Tony Schwartz | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips, Time Management, Work

The authors, founders of and executives at LGE Performance Systems, an executive training program based on athletic coaching programs, offer a program aimed at stressed individuals who want to find more purpose in their work and ways to better handle their overburdened relationships. Just as athletes train, play and then recover, people need to recognize their own energy levels. “Balancing stress and recovery is critical … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

It takes a strong stomach to listen to how other people see you.

Content: Article | Author: Tony Schwartz | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

This article examines the work of Ken Wilber, specifically his four quadrants – composed of “individual interior” (upper left), “individual exterior” (upper right), “collective interior” (lower left), and “collective exterior” (lower right).

Content: Article | Author: Tony Schwartz | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior

The greatest sources of satisfaction in the workplace are internal and emotional. A look at the work of the Gallup Organization’s Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman and their Q12.

Content: Article | Author: Tony Schwartz | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior