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In this brief but significant book, the authors, a grandfather-grandson team, explore how using positive psychology in everyday interactions can dramatically change our lives. Clifton (coauthor of Now, Discover Your Strengths) and Rath suggest that we all have a bucket within us that needs to be filled with positive experiences, such as recognition or praise. When we’re negative toward others, we use a dipper to … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D., Tom Rath | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

This collection of articles is intended as a guide for managers, supervisors and students. The concept is to bring together a collection of resources that describe and comment on key variables in the organizational environment that relate to employees. The intention is to provide a resource-set on how such variables can be viewed and approached in terms of improving those business processes that are impacted … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Accel-Team.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

How can you build an innovative culture that harnesses the collective intelligence of your organization? Essentially it’s a matter of changing mindsets to help create alignment between people’s aspirations and the larger purposes of the organization. Such alignment cannot be imposed. It must be drawn out individually and collectively – a process that calls for more fundamental change in values and practices than is achieved … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Just allowing a culture to evolve is not going to cut it. To engineer a culture that reflects the organization’s vision and values, leaders should be specific about the behaviors they expect and relentless in the pursuit of those behaviors across the entire organization.

Content: Article | Author: Ted Miller | Source: Healthcare Financial Management Association | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

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One popular reason for giving equity is “We want people thinking like owners.” But think again. Most employees don’t want to think like owners; otherwise, they’d be out there starting companies…We say, “think like an owner” when we mean, “be cost-conscious.” And equity is supposed to do that?

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Communication

We haven’t done a good job of teaching critical thinking and creative problem-solving. People find critical thinking difficult because it’s a radical switch from their 20 years of education in solving well-structured problems. We’ve produced a nation of certainty junkies, where if you can’t define a problem with precision and certainty, people go crazy. Well, welcome to the real world. The game has changed. Problems … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Decision Making, Thought

Going beyond discussions of dispute resolution, this practical guide outlines an integrated model for understanding and managing conflict in organizations.

Content: Book | Authors: James Gibson, Kirk Blackard | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

History shows that CEOs who dither over tough decisions cause companies to get stuck in adversity and, ultimately, to drift into crisis…The secret appears to be to “get on with it”: The game is won in the long term based on successful execution of a strategy, even a flawed one.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Leadership

In any great organisation it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Are negative relationships squelching productivity in your company?

Content: Article | Author: Steve Crabtree | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Stories are about meaning; they help explain why things could happen in a certain way. They give order and meaning to events – a crucial aspect of understanding future possibilities. Stories have many advantages. They open people up to multiple perspectives…stories help people cope with complexity.

Content: Quotation | Sources: LeaderValues, The Art Of The Long View | Subject: Communication

Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organisations’ true nature is that of a community of humans.

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Wisdom

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Teamwork

Every organization has a wealth of knowledge stored in the memories and intuitions of its employees. This tacit knowledge is shared through formal and non-formal networks which bond and motivate people within the organization. Karen Stephenson goes at the importance of trust in the creation of such networks and explains why managers must harness the power of networks to efficiently guide innovation and change. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Karen Stephenson | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Organizational Behavior

Bonuses and pay-for-performance plans can even be problematic when people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation. In those situations, people tend to get risk averse. Of course, people need to feel that they’re being compensated fairly. But our research shows that people put far more value on a work environment where creativity is supported, valued, and recognized. People want … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

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A review of leadership development programs at eight major corporations reveals that nothing works better than interaction with colleagues.

Content: Article | Authors: Howard Morgan, Marshall Goldsmith | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior