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It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” And yet when I ask my executive clients, “If I cleared your calendar for an entire day to free you up to be ‘more strategic,’ what would you actually do?” most have no idea. I often get … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Ron Carucci | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Personal Development, Time Management, Work

It’s hard to find a decision or behavior that isn’t affected by other people. In fact, looking across all domains of our lives, there is only one place we don’t seem to see social influence — ourselves.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jonah Berger | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

You may indeed have gone into business in the first place because the subject of finance is relatively clean and clear; it doesn’t have the messy ambiguities of, say, psychology or literature. Such preferences don’t matter. You will end up distinguishing yourself (or not) on your ability not just to work with others, but to inspire them, draw insight from them, observe them accurately, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Personal Development

Most companies understand the importance of having highly effective managers, but few invest heavily in training to help them get there. One reason is that it’s difficult to measure and quantify what good management actually looks like. While there has been a lot of great work done to identify qualitative traits of great managers — they create trust, focus on strengths, instill accountability, avoid politics, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ryan Fuller | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Best Practices, Management, Personal Development

Leaders often fall into the trap that they “need to delegate” more. For some reason, they’ve been led to believe that delegation is always a good thing. It’s not!

If you delegate to someone who isn’t ready for the task or to someone who doesn’t want the responsibility, you will have a disaster on your hands.

So, how can you do a better job of delegating?

Content: Article | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

If you’re looking for a competitive edge, a way to establish your authority, a way to get more followers, one of the best, proven paths to online success is content curation. It’s both as simple and as difficult as finding great content and sharing it with your audience. The difficult part is that there is a lot that goes into a world class content curation … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kevan Lee | Subjects: Career, Marketing / Sales, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Don’t be fooled by the name. They may be called “soft skills”, but there is nothing soft or weak about them. They are also among the top qualifications that employers look for in potential employees. In fact, you will find that many employers and hiring managers put more weight to these soft skills than the technical skills that you bring to the table. In other … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Martin Luenendonk | Source: Cleverism | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

The ability to recognize, own, and shape your own emotions is the master skill for deepening intimacy with loved ones, magnifying influence in the workplace, and amplifying our ability to turn ideas into results. My successes and failures have turned on this master skill more than any other. But can you strengthen this core muscle of your emotional anatomy? If your impulses tend to override … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Joseph Grenny | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Personal Development

We all know the basics of good presentation skills: don’t read from a script; don’t overwhelm your audience with verbose slides; and the like. But for a particular kind of high-stakes presentation — one in which you’re trying to get buy-in from key decision-makers — those basics aren’t enough.

To persuade the people who have the power to approve your idea or let it die, you … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Dorie Clark | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Learning isn’t just about taking in information—it’s about what you do with that information. Do you use it to see the world in new ways, to come to new conclusions, to behave differently? If not, I propose to you that you’re not really learning. […] Real learning is almost always at least somewhat uncomfortable. It’s challenging. It’s figuring out how to operate in new ways, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Erika Andersen | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Learning, Personal Development

Teams that fall in love with a problem have more successful outcomes than teams that fall in love with particular solutions. This is because knowing that a problem is worth solving continues to be motivating even when a team doesn’t come across the right solution on the first, second, or Nth try.

Content: Quotation | Author: Julie Zhuo | Source: Medium | Subjects: Challenge, Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Problems / Solutions, Teamwork

There’s a lot of time spent looking at learning and learning organizations, but we don’t give as much attention to all the ways we prevent ourselves from learning. Not only the ways we do that individually but also the ways organizations get built to cover our weaknesses and call each other to account. All of those activities, which are ways of avoiding discomfort and anxiety … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Robert Kegan | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Learning, Management, Organizational Behavior

Executive presence has long been a catch-all phrase. When you ask people to define it, they often answer, “I’m not sure, but I know it when I see it.” When pressed they might say it’s body language, gravitas, charisma, or presentation skill. Countless books, articles, and TED talks reinforce this idea. All you need to do is walk on stage like you belong there, open … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Suzanne Bates | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Public speaking is a huge fear for many people. Speaking.io teaches you the basics for free, with simple do’s and don’ts to ease your mind and craft an engaging speech. Developer and startup advisor Zach Holman designed the site as a crash course in the art of public speaking. There are five basic sections:

1. How to plan your task
2. Design and build your slides
3. Prep or the big

… [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

In Managing in the Gray, Joseph Badaracco offers managers a five-question framework for facing murky situations and solving tough problems at work.

Content: Article | Authors: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr., Michael Blanding | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

In medicine and, for that matter, other disciplines such as engineering, we demand expertise and try as best we can to assess whether or not people know what they are doing and talking about. In leadership, a good story coupled with enough self-assurance is often sufficient.

Therefore, in the domain of leadership development, where interventions as frequently measured by their entertainment value and with no science … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Expertise, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

To keep succeeding in your career, you need to uncover and learn to navigate your “job-within-the-job” — the unspoken, unwritten work that, among other challenges, requires you to manage constant change and navigate workplace politics, all while getting your best work done.

Content: Article | Author: Jesse Sostrin | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

In domains like music, sports, where there’s a lot of individual training, you see the ratio between training and performance. You probably perform less than 1% of the time that you spent training. Whereas in business, it’s more like 99% performance and 1% training.

Content: Quotation | Author: Anders Ericsson | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Training & Development

We analyzed data describing the behavior of 3,492 participants in a development program designed to help managers become better coaches. As part of this program, their coaching skills were assessed by others in 360-degree assessments. We identified those who were perceived as being the most effective listeners (the top 5%). We then compared the best listeners to the average of all other people in the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jack Zenger | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

One of the virtues of Decision Quality (DQ) is that it allows us to know if we’ve made a good decision at the time we are making it. If we’ve correctly followed the process, we can confidently state that ‘We made the best possible choice given our alternatives, the available information, future uncertainties, and the things we can control.’ That’s contrary to conventional thinking, which … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Carl Spetzler, Hannah Winter, Jennifer Meyer | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Management, Personal Development