1081 Posts Found

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Challenge, Management, Vision, Work

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake—you can’t learn anything from being perfect.

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

How does an adult achieve a high level of contentment while living a frenetic and distraction-packed life? It’s not easy. You first have to figure out how you’re spending your time personally and professionally. I measure this in two dimensions: short-term satisfaction and long-term benefit.

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

Many of the best organizations are learning organizations that encourage their employees to take time to think creatively and innovate. Do you put a priority on learning? Here’s an idea to use your time in clever ways to advance your learning and thus your effectiveness.

Content: Article | Authors: Andy Boynton, Bill Fischer | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

The next time someone offers you advice, ask yourself these two questions: Can I imagine the opposite ever making sense, and will I know if I’ve acted on it? If the answer to either one is “no,” you’re at grave risk of being led astray.

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael E. Raynor | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Decision Making, Personal Development, Thought

Proper questioning has become a lost art. Because expectations for decision-making have gone from “get it done soon” to “get it done now” to “it should have been done yesterday,” we tend to jump to conclusions instead of asking more questions. And the unfortunate side effect of not asking enough questions is poor decision-making. That’s why it’s imperative that we slow down and take the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Tom Pohlmann | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Personal Development

Is classic research on decision-making still relevant today?

Content: Article | Authors: Jonathan Bendor, Lily B. Clausen | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Personal Development

In talent development practice, companies spend millions of dollars and countless hours every year on self-reported assessments that only target self-knowledge. The core problem is that we’re notoriously poor judges of our own capabilities.

Content: Article | Author: Erich C. Dierdorff | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Just how accurately do people understand each other? For many years, psychologists like me have been trying to answer this question by putting mind reading to the test. We might, for instance, ask a group of people to tell us how much they like you, then ask you to predict how much each of these people will report liking you, and then compare your predictions … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Nicholas Epley | Source: Capital Ideas | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

All of us differ dramatically in our attitude towards habits, and our aptitude for forming them. From my observation, I began to realize that just about everyone falls into one of four distinct groups: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels.

The key question is: How do you respond to an expectation? We all face two kinds of expectations:
1. Outer expectations: meet a work deadline, observe traffic regulations
2. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Gretchen Rubin | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated — until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the process reveals unexpected truths about how we can solve our biggest, most complicated problems at work. Learn how to run this exercise yourself, and hear Wujec’s surprising insights from watching thousands of … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Tom Wujec | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

In The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prize–winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Charles Duhigg | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

A Stanford professor offers a better way to make decisions.

Content: Article | Authors: Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Theodore Kinni | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that “follow your passion” is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed — preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work — but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping.

After making his case against passion, Newport sets out on … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Cal Newport | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

A Stanford lecturer explains key ways you can better plan, practice, and present your next talk.

Content: Article | Author: Matt Abrahams | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Personal Development

As human beings we love nothing more than being right, and […] when we are right, we are generally making someone else wrong. True humility is, at least in part, being able to see one’s own assessments as assessments, rather than believing them to be truths.

Content: Quotation | Author: Pete Hamill | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Thought

Everyone knows that Icarus’s father made him wings and told him not to fly too close to the sun; he ignored the warning and plunged to his doom. The lesson: Play it safe. Listen to the experts. It was the perfect propaganda for the industrial economy. What boss wouldn’t want employees to believe that obedience and conformity are the keys to success?

But we tend … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Seth Godin | Subject: Personal Development

It’s interesting, the people who are really good at getting things done, they’re not just optimists. In fact, research shows they have high positive and high negative affect, which means they’re really optimistic and confident things will turn out in the end, but they’re really, really worried about every little detail and how it’s going to screw things up.

Content: Quotation | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Achievement, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Successful bright people rarely experience failure, and so they don’t learn how to learn from that failure. They, instead, commit the fundamental attribution error, which is if something good happens, it’s because I’m a genius. If something bad happens, it’s because someone’s an idiot or I didn’t get the resources or the market moved.

Content: Quotation | Author: Laszlo Bock | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

There are two components to getting off to a great start on a new job: what to avoid and what to accomplish. This post explains both components.

Content: Article | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Subjects: Career, Personal Development