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Many women say, “I have enough money.” I rarely hear a man say that. And it’s because money is different to men and women. I think, for men, money is often a symbol of their power; it’s not for what can they buy. For women, money is not usually how they measure their success. It’s not that they don’t want it; but they want it … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Myra M. Hart | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Money, Women in Business

When you’re not caught up in being right, then you have the ability to listen when an issue comes up – and I mean really listen.

Content: Quotation | Author: Harry Kraemer | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Communication

Kleiner’s freewheeling portrait gallery focuses on corporate mavericks of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s who pioneered self-managing work teams, responsiveness to customers, grassroots organizing and other ways to imbue corporations with a sense of the value of human relationships. Starting with British management scientist Eric Trist, whose experiments in industrial democracy in the 1940s laid the groundwork for U.S. managerial innovations of the 1980s, Kleiner … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Art Kleiner | Subjects: History, Organizational Behavior

In some ways, corporations are like liberal democracies. The shareholders of a company are like the people in whose interest the enterprise is run. The executive is like the government and the key to making it run successfully are the institutions that provide the checks and balances: the judiciary, the army, and bodies like the Federal Reserve Board in America have their counterparts in the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Amit Varma | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Accountability, Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Why is it that many of the same companies appear repeatedly on lists of the best places to work, the best providers of customer service, and the most profitable in their industries? In their new book, The Ownership Quotient, HBS professors Jim Heskett and Earl Sasser and coauthor Joe Wheeler assert the answer lies in recognizing that strong, adaptive cultures can foster innovation, productivity, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Earl Sasser, James L. Heskett, Joe Wheeler | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

Content: Quotation | Author: Margaret Thatcher | Subject: Power / Authority

Of course, failure isn’t an experience to be deliberately sought, and cushioning ourselves against its harshest blows makes perfect sense. But failure isn’t something to be despised or ashamed of, either. That’s not a message we hear a lot about these days. Yet some of history’s most impressive successes started out as big, fat failures. The stories of the world’s most successful failures suggest … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Marisa Taylor | Source: Ode | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Informal networks can play a pivotal role in how organizational decisions are framed and executed. But they can also result in too much collaboration—the kind of lengthy and expensive decision making that can cost companies dearly in missed opportunities.

Content: Case Study | Authors: Rob Cross, Robert J. Thomas, Yaarit Silverstone | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Organizational Behavior

Happy Brain Storming offers a somewhat poorly written article, but one which is full of useful character trait considerations for evaluating personality. These character traits come after a muddling introduction which you may wish to skim/skip. [Hat Tip to LifeHacker]

Content: Article | Source: Happy Brain Storming | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.

Content: Quotation | Author: Colin Powell | Subjects: Communication, Leadership

A study from the Stanford Graduate School of Business about what motivates people to take action finds that the prime mover, say researchers, is acquiring a position of power. Specifically, it is people’s new, more elevated perception of themselves after assuming a position with more power that inspires them to take more risks and pursue goals more confidently. Taking on a formal position of power—be … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Adam Galinsky, Deborah H. Gruenfeld, Nathanael J. Fast, Niro Sivanathan | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Organizational Behavior

There’s no shortage of approaches to organizational and performance management — from balanced scorecard and total quality management to management by walking around and rightsizing, just for starters. One of the latest and most intriguing: the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), a management philosophy pioneered by Best Buy that lets employees decide what to work on and when. Giving them control over their time, the theory … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Lindsay Blakely | Source: BNET | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Finance professors often get criticised by ethics professors because they tell their students that the goal of the firm is to maximise shareholder value. Financial scandals such as Enron, Tyco and others are regularly blamed on the excessive focus on shareholder value maximisation. Theo Vermaelen, Professor of Finance at INSEAD, says this critique is misplaced and reflects a lack of understanding of what we teach … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Theo Vermaelen | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Ethics, Finance

Man…consciously or unconsciously assigns a time schedule for appropriate results, and this is just how long his patience lasts in any venture. He may at first expansively invite association, consultation and participation but once the set period elapses, he reverses direction to head into the conventionally more familiar territory of the mere giving of information or orders.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jharna Sengupta Biswas | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Making quality decisions is an intricate tapestry of experience, inquiry, and judgment that converge to form solutions. According to Michael Sacks and Steve Walton, professors at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, there are strategies that can be adopted to make the process more effective.

Content: Article | Authors: Michael Sacks, Steve Walton | Source: Knowledge@Emory | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

The Chernobyl atomic-plant explosion, observes Dorner, was entirely due to human error involving the breaking of safety rules by a team of experts who reinforced one another’s puffed-up sense of competence. This German psychology professor believes people court failure through sloppy or ingrained mental habits, whether the mistakes involve cleaning dead fish out of a garden pool, adding rooms to a schoolhouse, launching economic development … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Dietrich Dorner | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Big companies are good at innovating within silos, but woefully bad at combining creative energies across divisions to build new businesses. The problem, we believe, is structural: Business-unit boundaries exist precisely because they create efficient structures for executing strategy. But silo focus and ruthless efficiency come at the cost of cross-divisional collaboration, so some innovation opportunities are either poorly executed or not seen at all. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Michael L. Tushman | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior

Understanding and Changing Your Management Style, by psychologist and business consultant Robert Benfari, is a hands-on guidebook for determining the type of leader you are–and becoming the kind you want to be. It includes methods that you can use to influence others, problem-solving techniques, and exercises that reveal your psychological nature according to the widely used Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Using the resultant patterns, the book … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Robert C. Benfari | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Resilience is an enormous concept. It plays out in all domains of our lives, and until the work of Drs. Andrew Shatté and Karen Reivich, co-authors of The Resilience Factor, resilience was seen only as a single competency. Their research has shown that resilience is actually made up of 7 factors, or inner strengths – Emotion Regulation, Impulse Control, Causal Analysis, Self-efficacy, Realistic Optimism, Empathy, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dean M. Becker | Source: Emerald for Managers | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

As a neuropsychiatrist who studies the differences between male and female brains, I’m often asked whether such differences play a role in professional achievement—and particularly, in men’s dominance of the highest ranks of many fields. Male and female brains are more alike than not, and business’s famous glass ceiling has nothing to do with raw intellect. Yet the distinct demands that are put on men’s … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Louann Brizendine MD | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Women in Business