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The degree to which individuals are subject to outside influences is a function of their freedom to move, which in the case of career influences, depends very much on the labor market. In the study of coercive persuasion I learned how powerful the group can be. But in an open society I learned that individuals are equally powerful, if they can choose their own settings. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Edgar H. Schein | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

You do not really understand an organization until you try to change it.

Content: Quotation | Author: Kurt Lewin | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Understanding and assessing your organization’s culture can mean the difference between success and failure in today’s fast changing business environment. On the other hand, senior management, particularly the CEO, often has a view of the organization’s culture that is based more on hope than a view grounded in objective fact. This article will explore some of the problems associated with understanding the reality of an … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Julie Heifetz Ph.D., Richard Hagberg | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

On what basis can we say that bribery is “wrong” or “unethical”? The immorality can be seen in the manner in which it is conducted. First, bribery is done in secret, not because it involves a trade secret, but because it is recognized as violating the explicit and implicit terms of a transaction. As such, bribery is a form of deception used to gain unfair … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Michael Hoffman, Robert E McNulty | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: Ethics

Profit is a legitimate goal; maximizing profit is not. If it does that, it simply ignores the legitimate claims of all those who do not possess the power to affect its profitability. This would be a breach of the moral principle.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Thorsten Busch, Ulrich Thielemann | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Giving feedback is a tricky business, and nearly 40% of feedback programs actually demotivate people. There is a skill to be learned here, and there are two things we can do to give feedback that’s motivating, accurate, and tactful. The first thing is to give feedback that is concrete, as opposed to feedback that’s about the person’s character. You want to talk at the behavioral … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David Dunning | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Communication, Human Resources, Management

One of the pet phrases I have is “The road to self-insight runs through other people.” Other people can often give us invaluable feedback that can really correct an illusion that we’re suffering from.

One of my favorite, but most chilling, findings is from a study that surveyed surgical residents. They were asked about their surgical skills, and then they were given the standardized board exam. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David Dunning | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Judgement, Knowledge, Learning, Personality / Behavior

One of the executives I interviewed said, “There’s no such thing as corporate culture.” His point was that the minute you start talking about corporate culture, it be comes somebody else’s problem–the leader’s problem. He said, “We don’t focus on corporate culture. We focus on character.” When you use the word character, that’s everyone’s responsibility. It’s about how we treat each other.

Content: Quotation | Author: Keith McFarland | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Character, Culture

Trust is the business word for love.

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael Price | Source: Feld Thoughts | Subject: Trust

Thou shalt not’ might reach the head, but it takes ‘Once upon a time’ to reach the heart.

Content: Quotation | Author: Philip Pullman | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subjects: Persuasion, Storytelling

According to Yale management psychologists David Caruso and Peter Salovey, we should discard antiquated notions such as that decisions should be made with pure logic and cold rationality. Instead, in The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: How to Develop And Use The Four Emotional Skills of Leadership, the authors argue that emotion and thinking are so intertwined that it is unproductive to consider them separately. This concept … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: David Caruso, Peter Salovey | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Ambitious people don’t like failing or looking stupid. As the social scientist Chris Argyris (one of the fathers of organizational-learning theory) put it, smart people have trouble learning because it involves so much floundering and failure.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Clint Kilts, Roderick Gilkey | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Ambition, Learning, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

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

“Groupthink” can result in spectacularly bad decisions, but the malady can be prevented.

Content: Article | Author: Alix Nyberg Stuart | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Organizational Behavior

A new book on workplace tensions among four generations — veterans, boomers, Xers, and nexters — explains why it’s so difficult for all of us to get along. So do you have a problem with that?

Content: Related Content | Author: Katharine Mieszkowski | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Demographics, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Generations at Work is intended to help you bridge the gap or, more accurately, gaps between people of different ages who work at your company. What’s so vexing about the workplace is that four different groups are vying for roles and recognition. There are the veterans, boomers, Xers, and the nexters. The people in each cohort, the book argues, have more in common than just … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Bob Filipczak, Claire Raines, Ron Zemke | Subjects: Demographics, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

We mortals are changeable. Alas, I must say more apt to change our minds when right than wrong. Wrong, we are stubborn indeed. Right, we are prone to vacillate and let opportunity escape.

Content: Quotation | Author: George S. Clason | Source: The Richest Man in Babylon | Subjects: Opportunity, Personality / Behavior

Lyle’s Law of Certitude: The more certain you are that you are correct, the more imperative it is to consider that you might be wrong.

Content: Quotation | Author: Lyle D. Feisel | Source: Tau Beta Pi | Subjects: Decision Making, Thought

When leading business thinker Gary Hamel analyzes the central problems with the modern hierarchical organization, he sees 5 debilitating deficits: too few voices are heard; creativity is confined and constrained; decisions are under informed; institutional barriers separate capital from talent; and an inability to adapt to fast-changing circumstances.

The fix? With its inherent ability to collect, store, share distributed data and knowledge, the Web can turn … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Gary Hamel, Sean Silverthorne | Source: BNET | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Using your authority to beat people down in your company may help you in the short term, but it isn’t good for morale. Most savvy, sophisticated executives are natural wooers because they understand that one of the most important things to people is their self-esteem, and it’s counterproductive to force people to go along with your idea rather than convince them of its merits. When … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Persuasion, Power / Authority