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Your new strategy looks good on paper, it looks good in the executive suite. But what does it take for the work force to get it?

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Charles Galunic | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Strategy

If you look at it as an individual, we are all so flawed, and we are all so bad at reasoning when our interests or our moral values are at stake. We are not going to get better at reasoning and change just by helping individuals to reason better. When you put us together into networks, systems, companies, juries and legislative bodies, we can correct … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jonathan Haidt | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Decision Making, Organizational Behavior, Teamwork, Thought

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That’s a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Daniel Pink | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

“The teams that can meet the creative challenges posed to them are the hallmark of the most successful organizations,” writes Leigh Thompson, the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Management and Dispute Resolution at the Kellogg School, in a new book published by Harvard Business Review Press.

Yet, she argues, most of the time collaboration fails to live up to its potential, largely because teams fall victim … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Leigh Thompson | Source: Kellogg Insight | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Why do some people outperform their peers by up to 40 percent? Why are some professionals more efficient at work than others? Why do some offer solutions, while others just complain and point fingers? IESE’s Pablo Maella analyzes the foundations of personal and organizational productivity through six variables.

Content: Article | Author: Pablo Maella | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?

The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control. … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Chip Heath, Dan Heath | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Communication

To invite genuine buy-in and engagement, we need to listen with a strong personal motive to learn and understand. But we have a “blind spot” in our brains that gets in the way. What we hear is easily distorted with our own needs, biases, experiences and agenda, even when our intentions are good. We often hear what others say without understanding what they mean. We … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: John Ullmen, Mark Goulston | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Many people are not interested in acquiring power, not because they lack ambition, but because they are living their lives as they desire.

Content: Quotation | Author: Sheryl Sandberg | Subjects: Ambition, Power / Authority

Most managers assume that surviving, especially in recessions, requires slashing wages, benefits, and other workforce expenses. And lowest-skilled workers are often viewed as the most expendable.

In Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder, Jody Heymann overturns these assumptions. Drawing from thousands of interviews with employees from front line to C-suite at companies around the world, Heymann shows how enterprises have profited more by improving working … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Jody Heymann | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

How do we know which of our successes and failures can be attributed to either skill or luck? That is the question that investment strategist Michael J. Mauboussin explores in his book The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing. Wharton management professor Adam M. Grant recently sat down with Mauboussin to talk about the paradox of skill, the conditions for … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Michael J. Mauboussin | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

The difference between a great company and an average company is how it deals with barely sufficient managers. If you continue to infect your organization with people who don’t drive excellence, you drag your company down.

Mediocrity kills companies. Organizations are quick to take action on bad leaders or ineffective leaders. Those, you can spot. But what stops a company from moving into greatness are all … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Raad Al-Saady | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

We use a clear set of performance criteria and objectives to measure leaders’ performance and potential. We measure the engagement levels of their teams, their 360-degree feedback scores, and many other things and then categorize leaders on a potential/performance axis.

With high performance/low potential people, you make sure they’re in roles that get the most out of them while continuing to recognize their contribution. The high … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Raad Al-Saady | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

You have a duty to find and keep great leaders — not only to produce results but also because they coach and mentor the next group of leaders. When people get promoted to their level of incompetence, they end up managing a group of people who are more talented than they are. Then they start playing politics because they’re insecure about the people below them. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Raad Al-Saady | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Motivational dynamics have changed dramatically to reflect new work requirements and changed worker expectations. One of the biggest changes has been the rise in importance of psychic, or intrinsic rewards, and the decline of material or extrinsic rewards. This author draws upon recent research to explain the popularity of intrinsic rewards and how these rewards can be used to build a high-engagement culture.

Content: Article | Author: Kenneth W. Thomas | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Listen to people talk about how they break the rules, in other words, and you’ll figure out what they consider the important rules in the first place.

Content: Quotation | Author: Graeme Wood | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subject: Organizational Behavior

This book collects and updates articles written over the past three decades by one of the foremost proponents of what might be termed—though probably not by its practitioners—the psychoanalytic school of leadership. It’s the second in a trilogy whose not completely felicitous subtitle gives away the author’s bias: “On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries.” [s+b annotation]

Content: Book | Author: Manfred Kets de Vries | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Employee orientation programs ought to be less about the company and more about the employee, according to new research by Daniel M. Cable, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats.

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

You can develop a high-performance organization by making the company stronger every time you move an employee, either via a promotion, a lateral move, or when a person leaves the organization.

Content: Quotation | Author: Randall J. Beck | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Companies waste a lot of time when they try to set up a development plan to make people become someone they’re not.

Content: Quotation | Author: Randall J. Beck | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Training & Development