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It’s easy to be critical of business books, which have become a big business. The motives and abilities of the writers who toil in these segments — self-help, how-to, CEO biographies, corporate narratives, big-picture panoramas, focused functional pieces, to name a few— are as widely varied as the categories themselves.

As is the case with every genre, a few of these books are fantastic, some … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: David K. Hurst | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Personal Development

Everyone I have met has exhibited one or more of these 20 bad behavioral habits. Review the list. Do you identify with any of these bad habits? If you are like the majority of people, the answer is yes, and you are ready to start using “What to Stop.”

Content: Article | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Subject: Personal Development

During the past 40 years, a powerful and practical theory of personal growth and development — one based on the evolution of human systems — has emerged. Known as the “levels of human existence” theory, it states that people grow in fits and starts, alternating long periods of stasis with abrupt expansions of their empathy and capabilities. You can track the growth of individuals this … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: David Hudnut | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Knowing how to develop and deliver a data-driven presentation is now a crucial skill for many professionals, since we often have to tell our colleagues a story about the success of a new initiative, the promise of a new business opportunity, or the imperative of a change in strategy — stories that are much more compelling when they’re backed by numbers.

In the past four years, … [ Read more ]

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

Many business leaders need to improve their perceptual acuity. Here’s how you can develop the ability to look around corners — and become a catalyst for change.

Content: Article | Author: Ram Charan | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Personal Development, Strategy

he difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do.

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because […] all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Luck, Success / Failure

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Content: Quotation | Author: Dale Carnegie | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

I’ve seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them ‘mavericks with mentors.’ Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick, but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

Content: Quotation | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your life and work. Authored by three legends in leadership and self-help — including Built to Last co-author Jerry Porras — it challenges conventional wisdom at every step. Success Built to Last draws on face-to-face, unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings from … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Jerry I. Porras, Mark Thompson, Stewart Emery | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

As Lynn Sharp Paine noted […] most companies are simply not designed to remember commitments over time—let alone communicate them clearly, hand them off between departments, or adjust them effectively as priorities change.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Elizabeth Doty, Lynn Sharp Paine | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Commitment, Organizational Behavior

Entrepreneurial genius—individual or collective—is a constant, torturous struggle between “being your best” and winning. Greatness without triumph isn’t truly great, but winning without being the best you can be is also a failure on some level.

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael Schrage | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Achievement, Entrepreneurship, Success / Failure

Your employees might have you pegged, but how well do you know yourself?

Content: Article | Author: Adam Bluestein | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

A pioneer in mindfulness research says that companies can promote innovation and their own rejuvenation by setting the right context.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Art Kleiner, Ellen Langer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

We define character as an amalgam of traits, values and virtues. Traits, such as open-mindedness or extroversion, may be either inherited or acquired; they predispose people to behave in certain ways, if not overridden by other forces such as values, or situational variables such as organizational culture and rewards. Values, such as loyalty and honesty, are deep-seated beliefs that people hold about what is morally … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Gerard H. Seijts, Jeffrey Gandz, Mark Reno, Mary Crossan | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Character, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Former secretary of state Colin Powell said that once you have 40 to 70 percent of the information you need to ascertain your probability of success, you can make a gut decision. When you’ve reached the threshold, it’s time to apply the “4R Test,” something I’ve developed after watching leaders in action and studying literature on decision making.

Content: Article | Author: Eric McNulty | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Judgment is the ability to combine hard data, questionable data, and intuitive guesses to arrive at a conclusion that events prove to be correct. Judgment-in-action includes effective problem solving, the design of strategies, the setting of priorities, and intuitive as well as rational judgments. Most important, perhaps, it includes the capacity to appraise the potentialities of co-workers and opponents.

Content: Quotation | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Decision Making, Judgement, Management, Personal Development

Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Daniel Kahneman | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development