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The problem with most people is that they do not know what they want, but they do know what it is that they don’t want and they keep asking not to get it – and are constantly frustrated because that is exactly what they get.

If you want to change something in your life, it is important that you use a “moving towards” strategy and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

What we have now is a multidimensional organization. On one hand, we have markets; on the other hand, functional departments. Business processes cut across all the above. In that kind of complex environment, hierarchy and power make no sense. Instead, it’s about influence and collaboration.

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Process

Historically, a lot of the value of technology was in automation. There was a pretty good alignment between the systems investments and the functional authority. It was a matter of automating existing business processes. What’s happened over the last 10 to 15 years is that we have offshoring, outsourcing, and value-chain relationships that get more and more complex, and we’re actually trying to use IT … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Organizational Behavior

People have been saying for a long time that the widespread availability of information would democratize organizations, and that the upward and downward movements of information would be replaced by horizontal ones. I just don’t see it happening.

In fact, the widespread availability of information is making it easier for senior executives to check on and control every movement of people at lower levels. So, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Information, Organizational Behavior

Employees at every level of the organization need to take initiative-to conceive, to inspire, and to initiate change. In short, to lead. What is needed today, more than ever before, is entrepreneurial leadership. Professor Cohen previews his new book on the subject by reviewing a successful example of a how a General Foods division used innovative operating structures and processes to create an entire facility … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Allan Cohen | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

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In the book, First, Break All the Rules, Buckingham and Coffman say, “It would be [most] efficient to identify the few emotions you want your employees to feel and then to hold your managers accountable for creating these emotions. These emotions become your outcomes.” How do you begin to identify the feelings you want your employees to feel? Based on our own research, and the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Brady Wilson | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Dan Ariely, director of the MIT Media Lab’s e-rationality research group, studies how people make decisions in real life and why their decisions often deviate from classical economic models, which assume that people act rationally and in their own best interests.

Content: Article | Authors: Dan Ariely, Meridith Levinson | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Economics, Organizational Behavior

If you experience great difficulty in raising money, it’s not because VCs are idiots and cannot comprehend your curve-jumping, paradigm shifting, revolutionary product. It’s because you either have a piece of crap or you are not effectively communicating what you have. Both of these are your fault. End of discussion.

Content: Quotation | Source: Forbes | Subjects: Communication, Venture Capital

Expecting the best from employees doesn’t always deliver results. Instead, managers must involve workers in setting goals that are achievable, measurable, and tap into motivation.

Content: Article | Author: Lauren Keller Johnson | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

A look at the matrix structure covering the following topics:
– What is a matrix organisation?
– How does a matrix make life easier?
– How does it make life more difficult?
– What does it mean for the manager?
– Some of the pitfalls
– How to know whether the matrix is right for you

Content: Article | Author: Alan Yu | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The industrial giant’s legendary learning center, Crotonville, has a new assignment: Teach every manager to be a strategist.

Content: Case Study | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior | Company: General Electric (GE)

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You’re smart ­but not that smart! Teams often defer to their best decision maker, but more is better than less when it comes to brain power.

Content: Article | Author: Robert B. Cialdini | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Content: Quotation | Source: Zaadz | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

This article examines team dynamics in light of the Kantor Four-Player system, an empirically based model of the structure of behavior (aside from the content of the behavior) in human systems. This system provides a simple but powerful framework for seeing and shifting team behavior. Specifically, careful observation indicates that, when we strip complex interactions to their bare essence, team members display four types of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David Kantor, Steven P. Ober | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subject: Organizational Behavior

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If you haven’t heard of this best-seller you are living under a rock. I actually have no interest in reading this myself and was never planning to add it to this site’s recommendations, but after reading an interesting analysis of why the book was so successful (Content: Book | Author: Spencer Johnson | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Many executives are now realizing that building the learning capability of their organizations is critical to achieving their business strategy. But this recognition raises some difficult questions. With all the demands on already-scarce company resources, where will the energy come from to create a learning organization? And if you do manage to find – or create – the necessary energy, how can you sustain that … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Bryan Smith, Joel Yanowitz | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Euphemisms are widely employed by corporate executives. Thus, in standard financial reporting, companies “earn profits” – a phrase that conjures up the notion of positive achievement of their own doing. In contrast, firms “suffer losses.” That sounds like an unexpected blow inflicted by some sinister force in the external environment beyond corporate influence.

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Communication, Miscellaneous