Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
In difficult times, organizational pathologies can cause a death spiral. Here’s how the CEO can win back the hearts and minds of staff, according to HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
Content: Article | Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
David Gill
What we need is moral leadership. Plato and Aristotle said the four cardinal virtues are justice, wisdom, courage, and self-control. I think they’re still right, 2,500 years later.
Content: Quotation | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Ethics, Wisdom
Diagnostic tool for assessing employee commitment
Human Performance Framework
Business Ethics in a Global Marketplace
There are many points to consider when developing ethical standards for a global environment. Getting all our employees to accept appropriate ethical standards makes our companies stronger and we become better corporate citizens in the process.
Content: Article | Author: Bruce A. Hamm | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Ethics, International
Life/Work – Gallup’s Q12
The greatest sources of satisfaction in the workplace are internal and emotional. A look at the work of the Gallup Organization’s Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman and their Q12.
Content: Article | Author: Tony Schwartz | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
John Stuart Mill
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Content: Quotation | Source: Abraham.com | Subjects: Observations, Personality / Behavior
Core Group Therapy
“I have come to think that there are basically three universal factors that influence corporate culture. I have never seen an organization operate without them, but their characteristics vary dramatically from place to place. If you understand all three in a particular organization, you truly understand how to reinforce what the organization is doing right, or change its direction.”
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Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior
The Motivation Myth
Effective mobilizing and energizing goes well beyond “doing” programs to the “being” or culture of a team, organization, or any group including a family. That culture is a set of shared attitudes and accumulated habits around “the way we do things here.”
Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subjects: Accounting, Organizational Behavior
William James
We are practical beings, each of us with limited functions and duties to perform. Each is bound to feel intensely the importance of his own duties and the significance of the situations that call these forth. But this feeling is in each of us a vital secret, for sympathy with which we vainly look to others. The others are too much absorbed in their own … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Observations, Personality / Behavior
William James
Our judgments concerning the worth of things, big or little, depend on the feelings the things arouse in us. Where we judge a thing to be precious in consequence of the idea we frame of it, this is only because the idea is itself associated already with a feeling. If we were radically feelingless, and if ideas were the only things our mind could entertain, … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personality / Behavior
Why Do People Say “Yes?”: The “6 Weapons of Influence”
The Six Weapons of Influence are incredibly powerful and can be combined in many ways. Use them whenever you approach people you want to influence.
Content: Article | Authors: David Palmer, Patricia Fripp | Source: ManagerWise | Subject: Organizational Behavior
Eric Bonabeau
Managers would rather live with a problem they can’t solve than with a solution they don’t fully understand or control.
Content: Quotation | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Management, Personality / Behavior
Are You Ready for Social Software?
It’s the opposite of project-oriented collaboration tools that places people into groups. Social software supports the desire of individuals to be pulled into groups to achieve goals. And it’s coming your way.
Content: Article | Author: Stowe Boyd | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Organizational Behavior
Why So Many People (Not You, Of Course) Made So Many Brain-Dead Investments (And How Not to Make Them Again)
Behavioral economists seek to explain why we so often make financial choices that are, to put it bluntly, really damn stupid.
Content: Article | Author: Gary Belsky | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development | Industry: Investing
Lou Holtz
When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done.
Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Accountability, Action
Contracts: the Foundation for a Flexible Economy
Professor Todd Zenger examines issues regarding
trust, envy, and committed relationships. His studies show that
contracts, and the legal system that supports them, provide the
foundation on which a flexible and responsive economy is built.
Content: Article | Author: Todd Zenger | Source: Discovery@Olin | Subjects: Legal, Organizational Behavior
Who or what is killing the great women of the corporate world?
“This is the crime of the century: Women get to the top, and then they are murdered in cold blood. People are talking about the murders, but nobody is doing a Joe Friday-style investigation into who the perps might be. I want to know who or what is killing the great women of the corporate world? The clues lie deeper than the misuse of strategy, … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Harriet Rubin | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Women in Business
Brian Billick
If you are not prepared to exhibit a constant level of energy, those around you will respond in kind.
Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Personality / Behavior