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There are people who get exactly what they want. You think they’re the lucky ones, but they’re not. The lucky ones are those who do what they are meant to do.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Life, Personal Development, Wisdom

People today work more than they really need to—for the wrong reason. “It’s their own fault, for treating time as a mere status symbol. And a negative status symbol at that: the less time, the more prestige. The more time you have on your hands, the less important you must be.”

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Personal Development, Time Management

The only way to do the right thing well is to do it poorly first.

Content: Quotation | Author: Thomas J. DeLong | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Ability, Experience, Skills

If you want to threaten a really smart person who is task driven, question his or her competency. That’s the very soul of who they are.

Content: Quotation | Author: Thomas J. DeLong | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Competence, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Though forecasting specific events is futile, becoming conversant in the growing technical language and comfortable with the evolving conditions and events that shape the future is an increasingly essential part of what management is and does. Managers who don’t make the effort, who don’t learn, and who don’t get comfortable with what needs to be learned will surely constrain their careers and hurt their companies. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Theodore Levitt | Subjects: Career, Future, Management, Personal Development

Our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations.

Content: Quotation | Author: George Bernard Shaw | Subjects: Action, Experience, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Content: Quotation | Author: George Bernard Shaw | Subjects: Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Leaders need to examine their effectiveness at managing virtuous behavior to add value to organizations. Virtuousness is not only important from a humanistic point of view in workplace settings, but helps drive important organizational outcomes.

Editor’s Note: this article is much better than the description indicates. It offers a methodology for both analyzing your strengths (the well-known VIA survey) and making sure that you are … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Charles D. Kerns, Ph.D. | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Urgency engulfs the manager; yet the most urgent task is not always the most important. The tyranny of the urgent lies in its distortion of priorities. One of the measures of a manager is the ability to distinguish the important from the urgent, to refuse to be tyrannized by the urgent, to refuse to manage by crisis.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Management, Personal Development, Time Management

New research by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking time to reflect on our work improves job performance in the long run.

Content: Article | Authors: Carmen Nobel, Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

There are two kinds of dissatisfaction in life: One is what I call the “dissatisfaction of acquisition.” The other is the “dissatisfaction of aspiration.” The dissatisfaction of acquisition centers on the drive to have more things. We live in a competitive culture—a culture of more. And in such a culture, it’s hard to set limits. The dissatisfaction of acquisition is an unhealthy dissatisfaction; it’s caused … [ Read more ]

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

Our lives are made for success—and not just for enjoying it, but for seeking it as well. As a matter of fact, the people who are most likely to enjoy success are those who most enjoy seeking it. Those people are able to find satisfaction in the journey, not just at the end of the road.

Content: Quotation | Author: Tom Morris | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Achievement, Life, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

The greatest case of mistaken identity in modern society relates to the four marks of public success: money, power, fame, and status. I have no problem with money, power, fame, or status—as long as they’re treated as resources, rather than as goals in themselves. But that’s precisely the problem for most people—and that’s why it’s so hard for people to answer the question “How much … [ Read more ]

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

Most people think that they need to know a lot about a subject before they speak about it. The challenge of speaking calls up thoughts that you don’t even know are percolating inside your brain. People are unread books. Speaking forces you to say out loud what you know deep inside.

To think deeply, don’t ask questions. Talk about something that you don’t entirely know—and discover … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Harriet Rubin | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Communication, Learning, Thought

Competent people have a predictable, reliable process for solving a particular set of problems. They solve a problem the same way, every time. That’s what makes them reliable. That’s what makes them competent. Competent people are quite proud of the status and success that they get out of being competent. They like being competent. They guard their competence, and they work hard to maintain it. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Seth Godin | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Competence, Organizational Behavior

Anyone who pulls the organization in new directions must look inward as well as outward.

Content: Article | Authors: Erica Ariel Fox, Nate Boaz | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Change Management, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Where we get in trouble in this world is that people are pushing and shoving for three things: money, recognition, and power and status. There’s nothing wrong with any of these things—except if you define yourself by them. See, the opposite of money as a drive is generosity, generosity of time, talent, and treasure. The opposite of recognition is service, and the opposite of power … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Ken Blanchard | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Wisdom

I’ve been studying decision-making at the top for many years and what I’ve found is that good decisions nearly always result from robust decision processes. Similarly, decisions that go wrong nearly always stem from procedural or organizational failures. In fact, just five mistakes account for the vast majority of poor decisions.

Content: Article | Author: Michael C. Mankins | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Knowledge is a higher order of awareness that tells you why. Know-how is a higher order of knowledge that tells you how.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Ability, Competence, Knowledge

For executive leaders, character is framed by drive, competence, and integrity. Most senior executives have the drive and competence necessary to lead. But too often organizations elevate people who lack the moral compass. I call them “destructive achievers.” They are seldom evil people, but by using resources for no higher purpose than achievement of their own goals, they often diminish the enterprise. Such leaders seldom … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Warren Bennis | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Character, Integrity, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior