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Experts could be our most powerful teachers—but often they’ve lost the ability to connect with novices. Research by Ting Zhang reveals how experts can rediscover the experience of inexperience.

Content: Article | Author: Carmen Nobel | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Knowledge Management, Personal Development

When we face a tough creative challenge, we always look to those with the most expertise. The truth is that some level of expertise matters, but the most creative solutions come from those on the fringes of the subject area, who know enough to understand but not enough to block their creative thinking. Research shows that, over the course of their careers, most individuals tend … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David Burkus | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Creativity, Expertise, Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Marshall Goldsmith uses “The Wheel of Change” to help clients decide what to change and where to put their efforts. It illustrates the interchange of two dimensions that we need to sort out before we can become the person we want to be.

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

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Achievement, Execution, Goals, Planning, Strategy

In the new world of deep interconnectivity, what we call the Social Age, leaders are confronted with challenges that constantly test ‘who they are’ while making each of these tests public with everyone able to comment. … Social Age leadership challenges … five areas of ‘who we are’ as leaders that most impact our leadership narrative. … There is no one right way to lead … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Frank Guglielmo, Sudhanshu Palsule | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Personal Development

Any one response to the universe, however powerful, becomes inappropriate with time and change. Those who become utterly dependent on one means of mastery will find themselves unable to cope with the future.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Change Management, Future, Management, Personal Development, Skills

Careers involve numerous transitions when we “step up” into a new role, typically one with greater rewards, bigger responsibilities, and higher stakes. We’re well aware that these opportunities come as the result of effort and diligence in our previous role, but we can fail to appreciate how much hard work is required after we’ve made the transition to ensure that it’s a successful one. The … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ed Batista | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Commitment, Innovation, Management

In my ten years as an executive coach, I have never had someone raise his hand and declare that he needs to work on his emotional intelligence. Yet I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard from people that the one thing their colleague needs to work on is emotional intelligence. This is the problem: those who most need to develop it are the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Muriel Maignan Wilkins | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Personal Development

People are afraid to compete because they prefer to pretend they could have won if they played, than to know that they played and lost.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Competition, Fear / Doubt, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Money is not wealth. Discretionary time is wealth. You can always make more money. You can’t make more time.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Career, Personal Development, Wisdom

Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, is oft but Perseverance in disguise.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Personal Development

There are 2 types of folks who make it: the lucky ones, and the persistent ones.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Career, Luck, Personal Development, Success / Failure

What people say they want and what people are willing to work their ass off to get are two different things.

Content: Quotation | Author: Hugh MacLeod | Subjects: Achievement, Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Which conflicts are useful and which are counter-productive? My experience with great leaders has led me to develop a simple formulation, one that can help you avoid pointless skirmishes and help you take on the challenges that really matter. Follow it, and you will dramatically shrink your daily volume of stress, unpleasant debate and wasted time.

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

Deliberate practice has three key components: setting specific goals; obtaining immediate feedback; and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt | Subjects: Personal Development, Preparation, Skills

You can only truly comprehend and evaluate a business book after you have read many of them.

Content: Quotation | Author: Albert Madansky | Subjects: Learning, Personal Development

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

Self-promotion can be uncomfortable for many people. It’s a tricky prospect: how can you ensure that your talent is recognized without alienating your colleagues and looking like a jerk?

Content: Article | Author: Dorie Clark | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Personal Development