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Leaders want to get better in the here-and-now, not to be judged against a competency map or be sold an abstract theory about what leadership should look like. If you want to become a great leader, become a student of your context — understand your organization’s social system — and mind your routines. Leadership development is more about application than theory.

Content: Quotation | Author: Todd Warner | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development, Training & Development

One scholar shows how you can gain more power, and why you should be leery.

Content: Article | Author: Shana Lynch | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

If you want to be an original – the kind of nonconformist who champions new ideas and really drives creativity and change in the world – I thought you had to be an early bird, a first mover. But again, the evidence proved me wrong. Turns out that most originals are great procrastinators. The reason for this is pretty simple. […] What I noticed as … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Adam Grant | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Career, Creativity, Innovation, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Your job as a presenter is to engage your audience, to pull them forward in their seats. Unfortunately, audiences can be easily distracted, and they habituate quickly. To counter these natural tendencies, you must diversify your material to keep people’s attention, with variation in your voice, variation in your evidence, and variation in your visuals.

Content: Quotation | Author: Matt Abrahams | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Real learning is almost always at least somewhat uncomfortable. It’s challenging. It’s figuring out how to operate in new ways; questioning your assumptions; putting new ideas into practice. Real learning takes you out of the tried-and-true, and into that murky, disturbing land of I’m-not-very-good-at-this. And, I submit to you, that kind of learning is central to our success today.

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

Even small decisions can have a big impact.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Scott Berinato | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Whatever your chosen field or avocation may be, if you take it seriously, you probably wish you could become an expert – the sort of person who earns real success, better opportunities or even just more personal satisfaction from what you do. And if you’re not an expert, you may look at those who are and think, maybe they just came to the task with … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Anders Ericsson | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Even experts can be blind to important features of their subjects. I have done a lot of work on country competitiveness, but if anybody had asked me in 2000 to name the top 100 conditions that underpin a thriving economy, I wouldn’t have mentioned “a well-functioning land registry system.” Then I read [Hernando] de Soto’s compelling case that the ability to get clear title to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Roger L. Martin | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Expertise, Knowledge

Key takeaways from analyzing 100,000 presentations.

Content: Article | Author: Matt Abrahams | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

When setting priorities it is helpful to distinguish between absolute and relative performance. Absolute performance sets the minimum requirements — are you in the red or black, are you growing or contracting? Relative performance, expressed in percentile rankings, tells you where you have the most room for improvement and sets an upper bound on what is reasonable for you, given how well you’re already performing … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael E. Raynor | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Achievement, Management, Measurement

Before doing so, executives should ask themselves two sets of questions.

Content: Article | Authors: Olivier Sibony, Philip Meissner, Torsten Wulf | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

“As he did in The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg melds cutting-edge science, deep reporting, and wide-ranging stories to give us a fuller, more human way of thinking about how productivity actually happens. He manages to reframe an entire cultural conversation: Being productive isn’t only about the day-to-day and to-do lists. It’s about seeing our lives as a series of choices, and learning that we … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Charles Duhigg | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Figuring out how to make the act of decision-making “commensurate with the complexity and importance of the stakes” is a huge problem, in Daniel Kahneman’s view, to which the business world does not devote much thought. At a Wharton conference he described how significant progress can be made in making organizations “more intelligent.”

Content: Article | Author: Daniel Kahneman | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Despite the huge impact executives can have on their organizations, failure rates remain high. Prescriptions for what to do continue to fall short. So we wondered: If we closely studied the executives who succeed in top jobs once appointed, could we identify distinguishing features that set them apart and defined their success?

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ron Carucci | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

While 70% to 80% of leaders are better off working on their strengths, 20% to 30% of leaders have something called a “fatal flaw.” Most people have weakness. However, fatal flaws are significant weaknesses that have a very negative impact on a person’s career and effectiveness.

Content: Quotation | Author: Joe Folkman | Source: The CLEMMER Group | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

In the past decade, there has been much enthusiasm for the idea that behavioral change interventions are most effective when they focus exclusively on enhancing people’s inherent strengths, as opposed to also addressing their weaknesses. Although there are no reasons to expect the fascination with strengths to wane any time soon, organizations — and people — would be better off if it did. There are … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

A new book by Wharton management professor Adam Grant challenges our assumptions about what it takes to generate and champion original ideas in ourselves and others. In Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Grant reveals what we can learn from entrepreneurs and other trailblazers to help us think differently and to make our voices heard.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Adam Grant | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Innovation, Personal Development

We’ve all got so many different things in us, so many different potentials in us, but the modern world responds and rewards specialization, people who know how to zero in on a particular thing. The ideal sweet spot is that you’re very interested in a specialized bit of the world that society needs but where there are few other competitors, and you can draw a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Alain de Botton | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

We live in a world partly driven by the ideology of the United States that is very forward-looking, very optimistic, very much placing the emphasis on individual achievement and the possibilities that are open to everyone so long as they work hard, which is a beautiful philosophy of life but also a very punishing one. It places huge responsibility on the individual to perform and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Alain de Botton | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

I was a longtime aficionado of SMART goal setting when the “M” stood for “Measurable.” However, over time, I found that a specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound goal simply was not SMART enough. I changed the “M” to “Motivating” and moved measurable into the “S” (Specific). Adding another dimension to make my goals more emotionally compelling worked for me. It seemed to work for … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Susan Fowler | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Achievement, Goals, Measurement