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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

Our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations.

Content: Quotation | Author: George Bernard Shaw | Subjects: Action, Experience, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

There are two kinds of dissatisfaction in life: One is what I call the “dissatisfaction of acquisition.” The other is the “dissatisfaction of aspiration.” The dissatisfaction of acquisition centers on the drive to have more things. We live in a competitive culture—a culture of more. And in such a culture, it’s hard to set limits. The dissatisfaction of acquisition is an unhealthy dissatisfaction; it’s caused … [ Read more ]

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

The greatest case of mistaken identity in modern society relates to the four marks of public success: money, power, fame, and status. I have no problem with money, power, fame, or status—as long as they’re treated as resources, rather than as goals in themselves. But that’s precisely the problem for most people—and that’s why it’s so hard for people to answer the question “How much … [ Read more ]

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

Our lives are made for success—and not just for enjoying it, but for seeking it as well. As a matter of fact, the people who are most likely to enjoy success are those who most enjoy seeking it. Those people are able to find satisfaction in the journey, not just at the end of the road.

Content: Quotation | Author: Tom Morris | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Achievement, Life, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

There’s a lot of research that says that people are motivated and retained by three critical things. The first and most important is their personal development. The second is social connectiveness. In other words, they really like the people they work with; a great team they’re with; their boss nurtures and supports them and gives them feedback. Third is that they’re recognized, and part of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Christopher A. Bartlett | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

The bedrock of character is self-discipline; the virtuous life, as philosophers since Aristotle have observed, is based on self-control. A related keystone of character is being able to motivate and guide oneself, whether in doing homework, finishing a job, or getting up in the morning. And, as we have seen, the ability to defer gratification and to control and channel one’s urges to act is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Goleman | Subjects: Character, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

People automatically associate input related to quantity (how long it takes to make a car) with output quality (how well it performs). While in many cases, input information does directly correspond to outcome, in some cases it does not. Yet humans are hardwired to automatically associate input and output. And people can prey on your input bias, causing you to make poor decisions or judgments … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Maurice Schweitzer, Stephanie Overby | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Decision Making, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Thought

Psychologist Richard Farson observed that, although people profess to learn from their mistakes, their behavior is shaped by their successes. This is why change is hard for people. Confronted with failure, or with a new world where the old tricks aren’t working any more, most people keep doing what they have been doing, only harder.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Experience, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

Many famous, successful people are at either of two extremes: Either they give nothing of themselves and they just want to know your thinking, or they want to do nothing except talk about themselves and they don’t listen.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jared Diamond | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Personality / Behavior

I like people who are alive. People who are alive are hard to control. They have ideas, aspirations, and feelings, including anger. Nice people have the bad habit of letting me down. Nice people don’t offer me anything I have not thought of before. Nice people don’t save me from my mistakes. Nice people end up acting on feelings they have always had but never … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Few things provide greater satisfaction or joy than to learn that another feels that something you have said or done has been of help to them. This is especially true when it occurred with no thought of something in return.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Wooden | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Communication, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

There are three factors involved in resistances: age, emotion and public stance. First of all, the longer your neural networks have been running one way, the harder it is to rewire them. Unfortunately, that’s just a fact of life. Number two, the things that you feel very strongly about emotionally are the hardest to change your mind about. And three, particularly for people who are … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Howard E. Gardner | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

I don’t believe behavior change lasts unless people’s minds change voluntarily. I’m interested in leadership that’s overt and mind-changing that’s intentional.

Content: Quotation | Author: Howard E. Gardner | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

We are all prisoners of the familiar. And that means we don’t get up in the morning and say, ‘I think I’ll go out and make myself as uncomfortable as I can by dealing with someone who is very different from me.’

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Superstition is merely the confusion of correlation and causality. Any human (in fact, any animal) tends to repeat behavior that is followed by positive reinforcement. The more we achieve, the more reinforcement we get. One of the greatest mistakes of successful leaders is the assumption, “I behave this way, and I achieve results. Therefore, I must achieve results because I behave this way. […] One … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

It is the ego that spoils work and the ego is the centerpiece of most theories of motivation. We need not merely a theory of motivation but a theory of inspiration.

Content: Quotation | Author: M.P. Bhattathiri | Source: ManagementLearning.com | Subjects: Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

All too often, bad behaviors are intended to delay things, avoid facing up to things, deny things, project onto others what you are really feeling and doing yourself, rationalize what you are doing. The real goal of bad behaviors is to indulge your emotions and avoid the reality of situations.

Content: Quotation | Author: Robin Stuart-Kotze | Source: ManagementLearning.com | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Research about cognitive bias has shown that decision makers are often unduly influenced by their starting points—how their thoughts about a topic are initially framed. Once you’ve defined the problem, don’t focus on the current process or product you want to improve. Instead, says Jim Goughenhour, “imagine what the ideal end state would look like, then work back to put in as much of it … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Loren Gary | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Decision Making, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Almost all decisions, big and small, are choices between exploring new possibilities and exploiting old ones.

Content: Quotation | Author: Art Markman | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior