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Many new executives inadvertently set themselves up for failure within the first few months of their tenure through their own actions. As an executive hired from outside the firm, you’ll naturally want to add value and assure your employers and employees that you are the right hire. But based on my work helping executives transitioning into new organizations, I’ve discovered common traps new executives tend … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Sabina Nawaz | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.

Content: Quotation | Author: Margaret Wheatley | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior

Research suggests that checklists can help reduce the influence of unconscious bias in decision making. Google has tested checklists like these to highlight and remind people of common unconscious biases and provide employees with targeted unbiasing strategies.

Content: Article | Source: re:Work | Subjects: Decision Making, Management, Productivity / Work Tips

In most large companies, with a handful of notable exceptions, nobody has the ability to say yes and let big plays happen. The CEO will say, “Such-and-such is my highest priority.” The organization says, “It’s the 135th ‘most important’ priority you’ve handed us this year, and we’ll take it for further consideration. Besides, we can probably wait you out, and your successor won’t remember what … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Bran Ferren | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Some thoughts on improving meetings in your oganization, courtesy of reader feedback to columnist Eric J. McNulty.

Content: Article | Author: Eric McNulty | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The vast majority of organizations put too much leadership development emphasis on people who are already in traditional leadership roles. And not enough on the people who are the promise of the future.

Content: Article | Author: Digby Scott | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development

Your company’s employees practice the behaviors that are valued, not the values you believe.

Content: Quotation | Author: Cameron Sepah | Subjects: Culture, Organizational Behavior

Your company’s culture is who you hire, fire, and promote.

Content: Quotation | Author: Cameron Sepah | Subjects: Culture, Organizational Behavior

In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character — not brains so much as heart — not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

Author: Samuel Smiles | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ability, Achievement, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Purpose may point you in the right direction but it’s passion that propels you.

Content: Quotation | Author: Travis McAshan | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Vision

One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jack Canfield | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Learning, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Executives need to get smarter about when to open up and when to withhold information so they can enjoy the benefits of organizational transparency while mitigating its unintended consequences.

Content: Article | Authors: Dan Cable, Julian Birkinshaw | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Although we found that many factors can matter for happiness at work – type of occupation, level of education, tenure, and industry are also significant, for instance – they don’t even come close to mattering as much as the boss’s technical competence. Moreover, we saw that when employees stayed in the same job but got a new boss, if the new boss was technically competent, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Benjamin Artz | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Slow progress in adding more women to boards has dominated the conversation. But tips from standout companies are more likely to inspire others to take firmer action.

Content: Article | Authors: Celia Huber, Sara O’Rourke | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Women in Business

A poorly designed job can work against even the most dedicated employee, setting the person up to fail. Robert Simons explains how to gauge whether an employee’s position offers the right mix of organizational support and responsibility.

Content: Article | Author: Dina Gerdeman | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Startups and established pollsters alike are working to bring the employee-engagement survey into the age of smartphones and big data.

Content: Article | Author: Steven Melendez | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson.

Content: Quotation | Author: Indra Nooyi | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Executives can view political moves as dirty and will try to distance themselves from those activities. However, what they find hard to acknowledge is that such activities can be for the welfare of the organization and its members. Thus, the first step to feeling comfortable with politics requires that executives are equipped with a reliable map of the political landscape and an understanding of the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Michael Jarrett | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Management, Organizational Behavior

A strong sense of conviction can both encourage and discourage people from speaking out.

Content: Article | Author: Martin J. Smith | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Google research shows that those who rigidly separate their personal and work lives are significantly happier about their well-being than those who tend to blur the lines between the two.

Content: Article | Author: Megan Huth | Source: re:Work | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development