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One of the great false assumptions in leadership development is, “if they understand, they will do”. If this were true, everyone who understood the importance of going on a healthy diet and exercising would be in shape.

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Ideacide is a great way to kill creativity. There are many ways to perform it.

Content: Article | Author: Matthew E. May | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Achieving diversity within an organization is not just a laudable accomplishment in its own right. According to research by Katherine W. Phillips, groups with diverse memberships often perform better than ones with more homogeneous make-ups.

Content: Article | Author: Katherine W. Phillips | Source: Kellogg Insight | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one’s body in “high-power” poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when it’s needed.

Content: Article | Authors: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Julia Hanna | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Successful people will almost always respond constructively to advice and input when they are involved in selecting the behaviors and selecting the advisors. By making the process confidential (not identifying raters), people will tend to focus on what they need to improve, not who did the rating. It is hard to deny the validity of items that we say are important as evaluated … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

When successful people write down goals, announce these goals to respected colleagues and involve the colleagues in helping them improve (in a supportive way), positive measurable change is much more likely to occur.

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

Successful people are much more likely to change by envisioning a positive future than by reliving a humiliating past. Proving that a successful person was “wrong” is often a counter-productive waste of time. Successful people respond well to getting ideas and suggestions for the future that are aimed at helping them achieve their goals.

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Content: Quotation | Author: H.L. Mencken | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

We all use Networks to communicate instructions, ideas and to share knowledge. We have Networks of friends, career advisors, co-workers, clubs, teaching mentors etc. And experience suggests that it is Networks within an Enterprise that get things done rather than simple reliance on the organization chart.

Content: Article | Author: Mick Yates | Source: LeaderValues | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Although even the highest levels of uncertainty don’t prevent businesses from analyzing predicaments rationally, says author Hugh Courtney, the financial crisis has shown us the limits of our tools—and minds.

Editor’s Note: quite topical, but still an interesting read…

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Hugh Courtney | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Strategy

Whatever people get for free stops being a delight and very quickly becomes an entitlement.

Content: Quotation | Author: Judith M. Bardwick | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Organizational Behavior

It’s a question most of us have asked ourselves: What makes successful people so, well, successful? It’s tempting to think that those at the top of their fields know something the rest of us mere mortals don’t. But that “special something” you’ve been searching for isn’t an uncanny ability to predict the market’s future, a membership in MENSA, or a secret business formula. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Maribeth Kuzmeski | Source: American Management Association (AMA) | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

You make decisions every day based on false assumptions about other people, immediate pay-offs, your memory versus imagination, and familiarity versus fondness, just to name a few. Want to learn more about your mind’s crazy decision engine? This illustrated guide can help. [Lifehacker Annotation]

Content: Article | Source: Royal Society of Account Planning | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

If a business requires a superstar to produce great results, the business itself cannot be deemed great.

Content: Quotation | Author: Warren Buffett | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Dispersed teams can actually outperform groups that are co-located. To succeed, however, virtual collaboration must be managed in specific ways.

Content: Article | Authors: Frank Siebdrat, Holger Ernst, Martin Hoegl | Source: Sloan Management Review (MIT) | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Ben Horowitz believes companies should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition. Here he aims to clarify why you should care about senior managers having the right kind of ambition and give some tips on how to screen for them in an interview.

Content: Article | Author: Ben Horowitz | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

“Sleep on it” is common advice given to anyone facing a big decision. Yet research by Loran Nordgren shows you may want to stick with your first impression instead.

Content: Article | Author: Loran Nordgren | Source: Kellogg Insight | Subjects: Customer Related, Organizational Behavior

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Great empires are not built by people who see two sides to every question.

Content: Quotation | Author: David K. Hurst | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Thought, Vision

The few organizations that adeptly tap human potential and build the value of people equity focus on three critical factors: alignment,capabilities, and engagement. In such “ACE” organizations, the rewards in terms of retention, customer satisfaction, and financial success are well worth the investment.

Content: Article | Author: William A. Schiemann | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior