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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Adversity, Character, Leadership, Power / Authority

Stanford’s Robert Sutton discusses the mind-set and strategies of companies that are most adept at building and spreading high standards.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy

ESE’s Domènec Melé presents a framework for “human quality treatment” (HQT) based on a recognition and respect for our shared human characteristics as well as our uniqueness. He ranks the quality of treatment in an organization according to five levels: Maltreatment, Indifference, Justice, Care, and Development.

Content: Article | Authors: Domènec Melé, E. L. Kersten | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Ethics, Management, Organizational Behavior

Any business today, whether a sole proprietorship or a multi-national, needs to build relationships. Which is why knowing how to leverage the value that social networks can contribute to establishing and sustaining relationships is crucial. This author offers several key suggestions for doing so effectively.

Content: Article | Author: Harold Schroeder | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

New research suggests that the performance payoff from organizational health is unexpectedly large and that companies have four distinct “recipes” for achieving it.

Content: Article | Authors: Aaron De Smet, Bill Schaninger, Matthew Smith | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

If you don’t know how to effectively get people to see things your way, it’s time for a refresher course in the gentle art of persuasion.

Content: Article | Author: Bruna Martinuzzi | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Many companies have adopted collaboration technologies, but some organizations are not achieving all the benefits they could. Accenture looks at the process and value of shaping collaborative behaviors and embedding collaborative technologies in business processes.

Content: Article | Authors: Alex Kass, Allan E. Alter, Mary Hamilton, Ryan T. Coffey | Source: Accenture | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Management, Organizational Behavior

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

Content: Quotation | Author: Charles Kettering | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior

I work with future leaders at Stanford to help them develop compelling stories that achieve their management goals — and I’ve developed a seven-part formula for storytelling success in presentations and business meetings.

Content: Article | Author: JD Schramm | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Goals may cause systematic problems for organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when applying goals in your organization.

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Pink | Subjects: Goals, Organizational Behavior

People seek out two things: information and entertainment. Offer them freely, and they’ll find you.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

A tool social scientists use to identify sex workers and drug users can help senior executives find the people most likely to catalyze—or sabotage—organizational-change efforts.

Content: Article | Authors: Emily Sheeren, Leigh M. Weiss, Lili Duan | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

“Moments that cannot be ignored” are events, actions, and comments that stop people in their tracks and, in one fell swoop, make it blindingly clear that an organization is stuck and unable to move forward. And they have become regular occurrences in today’s corporations, non-profits, and educational institutions as new forms of work, communication, and technology expose the ways in which an organization’s culture—or “the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Barry Dornfeld, Malachi O’Connor | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The Stanford professor’s latest research explores the practices that enable companies to scale what they do best.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Paul Michelman, Robert I. Sutton | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Nearly a quarter century ago, at a gathering in Phoenix, Arizona, John W. Gardner delivered a speech that may be one of the most quietly influential speeches in the history of American business — a text that has been photocopied, passed along, underlined, and linked to by senior executives in some of the most important companies and organizations in the world. I wonder, though, how … [ Read more ]

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

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Decision Making, Management, Thought

What we need today is a powerful new element to address the challenges posed by mounting complexity and rapid change. The solution…is a second system that is organized as a network—more like a startup’s solar system than a mature organization’s Giza pyramid.

Content: Article | Author: John P. Kotter | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Good processes include a process for changing or eliminating the process. Because projects and teams are changing all the time, a process that is useful or necessary one month may not be useful or necessary the next month. Never assume that a process will go on forever, and avoid defining jobs around processes for this reason.

Content: Quotation | Author: Scott Berkun | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Process

As these authors write, “Analytics does not have to be a whip used to increase the stroke count associated with extracting more from individuals. Rather, it can provide the opportunity to build a more effective, empowered and engaged workforce that increases the value of the larger organization.” They identify and describe six steps for achieving this in the article that follows.

Content: Article | Authors: Carl Hoffman, Eric Lesser | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Why do people feel so miserable and disengaged at work? Because today’s businesses are increasingly and dizzyingly complex — and traditional pillars of management are obsolete, says Yves Morieux. So, he says, it falls to individual employees to navigate the rabbit’s warren of interdependencies. In this energetic talk, Morieux offers six rules for “smart simplicity.” (Rule One: Understand what your colleagues actually do.)

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Yves Morieux | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Career, Management, Organizational Behavior