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Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Human Resources, Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

For a personal ethics code to be effective and useful in terms of living a better life and making better decisions, it must pass a test of reciprocity. So if you adopt an ethic, you must be OK with everybody else having this same ethic.

Content: Quotation | Author: Clint Korver | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Ethics

With over 50,000 copies sold in its first edition, Riding the Waves of Culture dispelled the idea that there is only one way to manage, and was the first book to show professional managers how to build the cross-cultural skills, sensitivity, and awareness required in today’s global business environment. In this second edition, Fons Trompenaars and co-author Charles Hampden-Turner reveal the seven key dimensions of … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Charles M. Hampden-Turner, Fons Trompenaars | Subjects: International, Management, Organizational Behavior

Leadership development is ensuring “that people in leadership roles have the competence to determine and to carry out the [company’s] strategic imperatives. If competence is acquired through experience, then it is the strategy of the business that determines which experiences are necessary to build it. The crucial links . . . are from the business strategy to the leadership challenges it suggests to the experiences … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Morgan W. McCall, Jr. | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

In the Information Age, information was a relatively scarce resource that conferred competitive advantages on those who obtained it. In the Knowledge Era, by contrast, information is virtually free. We often feel we’re drowning in the stuff. In theory, the true competitive advantage stems from turning all this information into useful knowledge. It’s a nice theory, as far as it goes. The truth, however, is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: American Management Association (AMA) | Subjects: Decision Making, Information, Knowledge

Charlie Munger is an 80-something billionaire who cofounded top-tier law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson and is Warren Buffett’s long-time partner and Vice-Chairman at Berkshire Hathaway, one of the most successful companies of all time.

Some people consider Mr. Munger to be an even more interesting thinker and writer than Mr. Buffett. Mr. Munger’s magnum opus speech is The Psychology of Human Misjudgment — an … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Marc Andreessen | Source: Pmarca | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | Source: Leadership Advantage | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

I’ve observed that the best leaders are those who have mastered three key paradoxes: realistic optimism, constructive impatience and confident humility.

Content: Quotation | Author: Robert Rosen | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Chapter 4 of The Talent Powered Organization turns the reader’s attention to talent development and talent deployment as key organizational capabilities of talent-powered organizations that support talent multiplication and competitiveness.

Accenture High Performance Business research shows that few companies are achieving high performance in learning and skills development of their workforces. Indeed, the nature of skills required by modern business is changing, and with it the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Elizabeth Craig, Peter Cheese, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty…It is staying power, the spirit which endures to the end – the will to win. With it all things are possible, without it everything else…is for naught.

Content: Quotation | Author: George C. Marshall | Subjects: Leadership, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

Communication…always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Subject: Communication

If you get a little creative, you’ll uncover the inventive minds that are already in your midst. Just give them a chance to show themselves.

Content: Article | Authors: G. Michael Maddock, Raphael Louis Vitón | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Content: Quotation | Author: Milton Friedman | Subjects: Economics, Politics

Can a picture of a pretty woman actually boost sales for a car—or a motorcycle? According to a recent study, erotic images can stimulate a portion of the brain in heterosexual males that is associated with anticipation of reward.

Content: Article | Author: Brian Knutson | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Advertising, Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior

You’ve just gotten the word. You are the new CEO—or maybe the word is that your offer to acquire another company has just been accepted. Whatever the source, you will now have a new bunch of executives reporting to you, and you know that your success will depend on them.

Right away, you have two tasks—you have to choose who your team will be, and you … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Edward J. Coyne, Kevin P. Coyne, Shawn T. Coyne | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

We have taken ourselves out of the Stone Age – but we cannot take the Stone Age out of ourselves. Time and time again managers and leaders have tried to eliminate hierarchies, internal politics, and interorganisational rivalry – but to no avail. Why? Evolutionary psychology would say that they are working against human nature – emotional and behavioral ‘hardwiring’ that is the legacy of our … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Nigel Nicholson | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

The best corporate leaders never point out the window to blame external conditions; they look in the mirror and say, “We are responsible for our results!” Those who take personal credit for good times but blame external events in bad times simply do not deserve to lead our institutions. No law of nature dictates that a great institution must inevitably fall, at least not within … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jim Collins | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Accountability, Leadership, Management, Success / Failure

People tend to only look at national culture when they go into international negotiations—but there is also educational culture, race culture, gender culture, a religious culture. All of these also impact the way people behave and they are all “cross cultural,” which means that we’re underestimating the role of culture because we are only looking at the national one; but as negotiators, we need to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Horacio Falcao | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Culture, International, Negotiation

Ethical dilemmas such as selling scanners that can tell the sex of an unborn child or kerosene heaters without U.S.-required safety features were debated during a discussion on “Academic vs. Real World Ethics” led by Stanford Professor David Brady. View the full video.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: David Brady | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Ethics

A chain of command beats democracy any time decisive action is needed.

Content: Quotation | Author: Frans de Waal | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Organizational Behavior