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Threatened egotism occurs when people or events undermine an individual’s high but unstable self-esteem. It doesn’t affect those with a stable self-esteem, since external threats are unlikely to faze such people. And those with a low self-esteem are unsusceptible to threatened egotism because external threats simply reinforce already low self-perceptions.

Millennials, then, are especially vulnerable to threatened egotism, because their inflated self-perceptions are generally grounded in … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: E. L. Kersten | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Man…consciously or unconsciously assigns a time schedule for appropriate results, and this is just how long his patience lasts in any venture. He may at first expansively invite association, consultation and participation but once the set period elapses, he reverses direction to head into the conventionally more familiar territory of the mere giving of information or orders.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jharna Sengupta Biswas | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Resilience is an enormous concept. It plays out in all domains of our lives, and until the work of Drs. Andrew Shatté and Karen Reivich, co-authors of The Resilience Factor, resilience was seen only as a single competency. Their research has shown that resilience is actually made up of 7 factors, or inner strengths – Emotion Regulation, Impulse Control, Causal Analysis, Self-efficacy, Realistic Optimism, Empathy, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dean M. Becker | Source: Emerald for Managers | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Westerners divide things into parts, often opposites, rather than seeing the whole. That has been the basis of scientific method and it has led to amazing discoveries. However for the complex problems we face today, I believe we need to see the whole interconnected system and diagnose the underlying issues. We seem to have difficulty seeing the whole system and tend to chop things up … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Bruce Nixon | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior, Philosophy, Thought

In her book, Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace, Michalle E. Mor Barak talks about how ancient Chinese tradition divides people into categories based on four qualities: Shi (scholars), Nong (farmers), Gong (artisans) and Shang (merchants). The belief is that to be a fully effective leader, one must acquire the ” . . . vision and ethics of the scholar, the appreciation and respect … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Al Vivian, Michalle E. Mor Barak | Subjects: Diversity, Leadership, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

We don’t see the world directly. We perceive it through frameworks of ideas and beliefs, which act as filters on what we perceive and how we perceive it. Some of these ideas enter our consciousness so deeply that we’re not even aware of them. They strike us as simple common sense. They often show up, though, in the metaphors and images we use to think … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Ken Robinson, Ph.D. | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Perception, Personality / Behavior

Abundance has satisfied, and even over-satisfied, the material needs of millions—boosting the significance of beauty and emotion and accelerating individuals’ search for meaning.

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Pink | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales, Personality / Behavior

If there’s anything we’re wired to do, it’s learn. That means even folks arguably difficult by nature can become less so—at least most of them. It also means we shouldn’t assume, as we almost always do, that someone’s incapable of change just because our efforts to make them change fail. The biggest reason people don’t realize their full potential for change is that we focus … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Diana McLain Smith | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

The frames people use to view the world and process experiences can make a critical difference to professional outcomes. Many studies suggest that optimists see life more realistically than pessimists do, a frame of mind that can be crucial to making the right business decisions. …Optimists, research shows, are not afraid to frame the world as it actually is—they are confident that they can manage … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Joanna Barsh, Rebecca A. Craske, Susie Cranston | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Leaders have to achieve psychological independence to enable them to apply their talents to the work at hand. This independence frees the leader to expand on his or her talents and thereby become an object to allow subordinates to identify with and to cultivate and apply their own talents in the interests of meeting and even expanding on objectives.

Content: Quotation | Author: Abraham Zaleznik | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Leadership, Personality / Behavior

Psychologists often use the term “psychological reactance” to explain why people, when feeling that their personal freedom is being threatened, react negatively to attempts to persuade or influence them. One can argue that reactance also occurs when consumers receive highly personalised communication from firms and brands. If a newly purchased brand suddenly pretends to be your best friend and uses personal information about your date … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Helge Thorbjørnsen | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personality / Behavior

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Human Resources, Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | Source: Leadership Advantage | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

I’ve observed that the best leaders are those who have mastered three key paradoxes: realistic optimism, constructive impatience and confident humility.

Content: Quotation | Author: Robert Rosen | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

When I talk about S&M, I’m talking about seduction and manipulation. The most successful people in business, warfare, politics, and life itself are masters of the art of manipulation. But it’s the combination of the two that is important, because people who are manipulators are seen as selfish and in the wrong. Manipulate is a dirty word, but if you combine it with seduction — … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Nina DiSesa | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior, Power / Authority

We are endowed with a native scorn of the abstract; we ignore what we do not see, even if our logic recommends otherwise. We tend to overestimate causal relationships. When we meet someone who by playing Russian roulette became extremely influential, wealthy, and powerful, we still act toward that person as if he gained that status just by skills, even when you know there’s been … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.

Content: Quotation | Author: Warren Buffett | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

It sounds simple, but in fact you could capture all of my research findings with the metaphor of a saltshaker. Instead of filling it with salt, fill it with all the ways you can say yes, and that’s what a good relationship is. “Yes,” you say, “that is a good idea.” “Yes, that’s a great point, I never thought of that.” “Yes, let’s do that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: John M. Gottman | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Today the average college student or corporate worker considers themselves a “multitasker.” …They end up with a huge list of things that fracture their attention. This isn’t wrong in any way — for the most part it’s admirable — but there is an old saying: to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To a chronic multitasker, everything is a task. Soon, the things … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Stephen R. Covey | Subjects: Attention, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic. Any complex undertaking is subject to myriad problems — from technology failures to shifts in exchange rates to bad weather — and it is beyond the reach of the human imagination to foresee all of them at the outset. Although the probability of any one of these events could be low, the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Kahneman | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Planning, Risk Management