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Carmine Gallo shares the three simple secrets all inspiring messages share, and how inspiring executives and entrepreneurs tell their brand or product story in a way that’s understandable, memorable and emotional.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Carmine Gallo | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personal Development

I work with future leaders at Stanford to help them develop compelling stories that achieve their management goals — and I’ve developed a seven-part formula for storytelling success in presentations and business meetings.

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

Any human, in fact, any animal will tend to repeat behavior that is followed by positive reinforcement. The more successful we become, the more positive reinforcement we get – and the more likely we are to experience the success delusion.

I behave this way. I am successful. Therefore, I must be successful because I behave this way.

Wrong!

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

Nearly a quarter century ago, at a gathering in Phoenix, Arizona, John W. Gardner delivered a speech that may be one of the most quietly influential speeches in the history of American business — a text that has been photocopied, passed along, underlined, and linked to by senior executives in some of the most important companies and organizations in the world. I wonder, though, how … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Bill Taylor | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Customers connect with businesses when they identify with their stories. Learn how to tell your story better with these 11 storytelling tips.

Content: Article | Author: Bruna Martinuzzi | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personal Development

If you want to develop and deliver a memorable story to your business audience — whether your listeners be employees, stockholders, or customers — you need to consider how to shape your storytelling. Here are some ways in which you might build your business story for maximum impact.

Content: Article | Authors: Karen Dietz, Lori L. Silverman | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personal Development

The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome but about the process of reaching the outcome.

Content: Quotation | Author: Geoffrey Colvin | Subjects: Achievement, Management, Personal Development, Success / Failure

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

Content: Quotation | Author: Steven D. Levitt | Subjects: Ability, Competence, Expertise, Management, Personal Development

There are only two problems in life: you know what you want and you don’t know how to get it; or you don’t know what you want.

Content: Quotation | Author: David Allen | Subjects: Life, Personal Development, Wisdom

When we are dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Content: Quotation | Author: Dale Carnegie | Subjects: Communication, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Researchers have confronted us in recent years with example after example of how we humans get things wrong when it comes to making decisions. We misunderstand probability, we’re myopic, we pay attention to the wrong things, and we just generally mess up. This popular triumph of the “heuristics and biases” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Gerd Gigerenzer | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips, Risk Management

The 11 guidelines listed below are intended to help you do a better job of influencing decision-makers. In some cases, these decision-makers may be immediate or upper managers—in other cases they may be peers or cross-organizational colleagues. I hope you find these suggestions to be useful in helping you convert your good ideas into meaningful action.

Content: Article | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Subjects: Career, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life’s challenges.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

For many, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Personal Development, Wisdom

Effective leadership often relies on your ability to persuade others. If you manage a team whose members come from different cultures, learning to adapt your persuasive techniques is crucial.

Content: Article | Author: Erin Meyer | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Career, International, Management, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Preference with a passion—intense commitment to what they do—is one of the single most dramatic differences between peak performers and their less productive colleagues […] many told me they can trace their performance more clearly to preference than to aptitude, more to how they feel about what they are doing than what they know.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Ability, Achievement, Attitude, Personal Development, Success / Failure

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Success / Failure

Finding is reserved for the searchers. We don’t find what we need; we find what we search for. Needing is not a prerequisite to getting value. You can’t be a needer, you have to be a searcher.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Information, Knowledge, Personal Development

As Guy Claxton, author of the book Live and Learn noted, one of the biggest barriers to learning is our resistance to let go of the 4C’s–the desire to be consistent, comfortable, competent and confident. We add a fifth to the list–the desire for control. Protecting and preserving these five C’s is a huge barrier to individual growth and development.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Education, Learning, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement—that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Life, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Wisdom