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No one is apathetic except those in pursuit of someone else’s objectives.

Content: Quotation | Author: Henry Ford | Subjects: Motivation, Organizational Behavior

Improve the way you communicate with your employees and create a motivating vision by tapping into your company’s past, present and future.

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

As Guy Claxton, author of the book Live and Learn noted, one of the biggest barriers to learning is our resistance to let go of the 4C’s–the desire to be consistent, comfortable, competent and confident. We add a fifth to the list–the desire for control. Protecting and preserving these five C’s is a huge barrier to individual growth and development.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Education, Learning, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Not long ago my colleagues and I studied the cost of adding a manager or executive, and we found a kind of multiplier effect. When you hire a manager, he or she typically generates enough work to keep somebody else busy as well. Senior executives — SVPs and EVPs — are even more costly. These high-priced folks typically require support from a caravan of assistants … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Michael C. Mankins | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

The head of MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence explains how the social intelligence factor is critical for business success.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Thomas Malone | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement—that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Life, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Wisdom

How to increase the total quantity of power in the organization so that the power given to some does not comes at the expense of the power of others.

Content: Article | Authors: Peter Tollman, Yves Morieux | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subject: Organizational Behavior

When I’m assessing a team, I use my “three ‘P’ ” test. The “P”s stand for people, process, and product. If everyone on the team isn’t clear about the product (whatever it is that you’re trying to create) and the process (how you’re going to get where you need to be, who drives what, who is the ultimate decision maker), then there are going to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Teamwork

When properly harnessed, an organization’s culture can be a true differentiator that no competitor can duplicate. However, as pressures on companies build, leaders often become frustrated with the comparatively slow pace of culture evolution. In the rush to implement new strategies and make performance improvements, the legacy culture—employees’ ingrained ways of doing things—can seem like the greatest barrier to change. Unfortunately, most well-intended efforts to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Caroline Kronley, Ilona Steffen, Jon R. Katzenbach | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

Understanding an ambidextrous organisation is one thing, making it a reality is another. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez provides an execution roadmap.

Content: Article | Author: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez | Source: London Business School | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy

In today’s turbulent business environment, leaders must be able to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. A study coauthored by IESE’s Mireia Las Heras suggests that the most adaptable executives are those who have worked in a variety of different jobs during their careers and those who had access to senior managers early in their careers.

Editor’s Note: I would be very wary of drawing the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Most people tend to emphasize just one or two, at most three, dimensions of cultural difference when it comes to parsing and predicting foreigners’ behavior. But cultures differ along many more than three dimensions, so the more dimensions you consider, the less likely you are to trip up on a cultural paradox. The trouble, of course, is that it’s cognitively difficult for us to keep … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David Champion, Erin Meyer | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: International, Management, Organizational Behavior

Call it a more sophisticated LinkedIn. It might just be the magic bullet for business development.

Editor’s Note: this is a somewhat topical article and the companies of importance will certainly change rapidly, but the underlying topic is of long-term interest. I was a bit disappointed that internal corporate network mapping and research wasn’t discussed more or tied to the larger idea.

Content: Article | Author: Greg Lindsay | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior

While Sheryl Sandberg and others emphasize the challenges for working mothers, women early in their careers say they face very different dilemmas.

Editor’s Note: I agree with one commenter that the “solutions” offered seem disconnected from the primary point of the article (plus, seem of rather dubious validity).

Content: Article | Author: Karen Cates | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Women in Business

When your intent is to move people to action, to help them understand and deepen their appreciation and gain more insight and more passion about their work, you have got to have […] facts, emotion, and symbols.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Communication, Leadership, Persuasion

Managers should think about three levels of human behavior in organizations. The first is technical skills, be they in marketing, operations, or the legal department. The second is hierarchy, based on the concept of social relativity, when individuals wonder how they compare to their peers. Even satisfied people get antsy when they see their peers moving forward. The third level, the “inclusionary dimension,” is the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Thomas J. DeLong | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

If you want to threaten a really smart person who is task driven, question his or her competency. That’s the very soul of who they are.

Content: Quotation | Author: Thomas J. DeLong | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Competence, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Humans are incredibly good at making quick interpretations of visual scenes. We then decide what to do. This provides an evolutionary advantage. It works extremely well at an individual level and has kept the species alive.

When we interact as a group, however, this skill limits our effectiveness. We argue about what to do without being curious about the different interpretations we may have of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: David Marquet | Source: 99U | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

While lying in the workplace is prevalent, it simply doesn’t work, according to this author, who has conducted several studies on the the topic. In fact, the greatest risk is in turning a blind eye and making dishonesty acceptable. As the author writes, the potential damage unleashed by an ethically permissive workplace may far exceed the lost labor of an employee taking a short nap … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: John Carlson | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Organizational Behavior

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Content: Quotation | Author: George Bernard Shaw | Subjects: Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior