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This article discusses the Enneagram, a simple model of nine personality types and how you can spot these types in team members, co-workers, etc. The article also presents five traits of outstanding managers, as determined by the Gallup organization.

Update: You can now find out what Enneagram type you are with a short 10-question exercise (ignore the fact that it suggests 2 hours to take … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Eric Garner | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

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The new accountability reflects the new reality…a world that is changing rapidly, where information moves at lightning speed, where shared knowledge and wisdom are the true drivers of success, and where cause and effect is not what we think it is.

Content: Article | Author: Brian Ward | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

In Turkey, the apartment buildings that collapse during earthquakes are known as “bribe buildings.” In Africa, bridges dot the landscape with no roads to connect them. There’s no doubt that corruption, endemic in emerging economies around the world, throws economic development into chaos. It affects decisions made by bureaucrats, degrades the quality of those in power, and discourages foreign investment. Wharton legal studies professor Phil … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Ethics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

To have hope, one doesn’t need certainty, only possibility.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Personality / Behavior

Those who can’t laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personality / Behavior

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The sum of operational, executive, and engineering cultures is greater than the corporate whole.

Editor’s Note: offers an interesting summary look at the theories of MIT OD professor Edgar Schein (three cultures) and sociologist Neil Fligstein (evolving historical corporate cultures that match the external environment)

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, People

Ethics investigations can be quite complex and fraught with potential risks. Taking care with them will allow the company to avoid pitfalls in both a legal and human sense.

Content: Article | Author: Bruce A. Hamm | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Ethics

Seglin (department of Writing, Literature and Publishing, Emerson College) shows managers how to navigate everyday moral business dilemmas regarding pay, hiring and firing, and other issues, using real-life examples to demonstrate the difference between a “gray area” and an outright misdeed. He discusses the line between lying and posturing, addresses the question of spying on competitors, and tells how to align personal beliefs with business … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Jeffrey L. Seglin, Norman R. Augustine | Subject: Ethics

Do your company communiqués seem to get lost in the void? You need a system of feedback that crosses the T’s, dots the I’s and closes the loops.

Content: Article | Author: Michael Atherton | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Without doubt, the most abundant, least expensive, most underutilized and constantly abused resource in the world is human ingenuity. The source of that abuse is mechanistic, Industrial Age, dominator concepts of organization and the management practices they spawn.

Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementLearning.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

An executive team development consultant/coach describes one of his assignments – the challenges faced and the tools used to address them.

Content: Article | Author: Robert A. Goldberg | Source: ManagementFirst | Subject: Organizational Behavior

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Leadership, Power / Authority

The world is becoming a more technical place and we will all have to work with technology and technologically brilliant people.

Content: Article | Author: David West | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The dark cloud hanging over the budget process is that people know they will be measured against the plan, so they aim low to increase their chance of success. They plan for mediocrity. The decision to tie rewards to budgets has done more damage to American industry than any decision in history.

The budget process is typically focused on current-period profit and loss drivers, with almost … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Content: Book | Author: Elliott Jaques | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

By imposing togetherness and teamwork across divisional boundaries, companies risk losing the people whose tacit knowledge actually drives growth.

Content: Article | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Data has no ethics. Data doesn’t care how it’s used. But the use and misuse of data has become the critical issue for today’s information-intensive enterprise. And now CIOs are working to develop a code for ethical data management.

Content: Article | Author: Scott Berinato | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Ethics, IT / Technology / E-Business

Content: Book | Author: Henry Mintzberg | Subject: Organizational Behavior