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Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, on how to make better executive decisions.

Content: Article | Author: Leigh Buchanan | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Personal Development

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In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few. Always begin, again and again.

Content: Quotation | Source: LifeHacker | Subjects: Achievement, Innovation, Potential, Problems / Solutions

The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Content: Quotation | Author: Warren Bennis | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

The defining characteristic of future change, according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, is that it is impossible — and foolhardy — to try to predict it. Nonetheless, the dominant impulse among policymakers and so-called experts is to attempt to reduce volatility rather than deal with it more productively. In his new book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Taleb argues that in order for individuals, institutions, … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Management, Personal Development, Risk Management

The cardinal rule of improv comedy: Keep a riff lively with “Yes, and. . . .” The phrase fosters funnier creative exchanges through positive reinforcement. Will and Kevin Hines of the Upright Citizens Brigade theater share ways to break out “yes, and”–along with other tools of the improv trade–in business settings.

Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Personal Development

Personal Brand Planning for Life is not a typical book on branding. It takes you well beyond the definition of branding and marketing yourself. This book will walk you through the process of accessing your own aptitude to understand what your strengths and desires really are. It shows you how to take this understanding and develop a brand from it. Many books on branding stop … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Robert M. Donnelly, Todd Rhoad | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Whatever civility might be, it has to do with courtesy, politeness and good manners… Courtesy, politeness, manners and civility are all, in essence, forms of awareness. Being civil means being constantly aware of others and weaving restraint, respect and consideration into the very fabric of this awareness… Through civility we develop thoughtfulness, foster effective self-expression and communication, and widen the range of our benign responses. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Decision Making, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Writing That Works: How to Communicate Effectively In Business by former Ogilvy & Mather CEO Kenneth Roman and legendary adman Joel Raphaelson offers some timelessly practical tips on the art, science, and psychology of successful communication.

Content: Article | Authors: Joel Raphaelson, Kenneth Roman, Maria Popova | Source: Brain Pickings | Subject: Personal Development

Remembering new information is an under-appreciated skill. The fact that most of us have never evolved our technique beyond the rudimentary and ad hoc approaches we used as middle schoolers suggests this. It is required for any sort of professional growth, since the need to learn is high, and can separate the exceptional performances from the mediocre ones.

Fortunately for us, insights from cognitive psychology … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: H. James Wilson | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Personal Development

Tim Ferriss breaks down the secrets to learning skills into a simple four part framework and two core insights.

Content: Article | Author: Tim Ferriss | Sources: Business 2.0, Business Insider | Subject: Personal Development

Many a good idea has been sabotaged by a co-worker who, during a presentation, cuts right in to say, “That’s a good idea but…” Readers of this article will learn what tactics they can use to effectively disarm and discourage such a saboteur and allow their ideas to be heard fully and ultimately win acceptance.

Content: Article | Author: Lorne Whitehead | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

What happens when you ask 21 luminaries from all walks – finance, law, tech, the military, and beyond – for the one piece of advice that got them to where they are today?

Content: Article | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Personal Development

A new book about the wit and wisdom of Harvard Business School Professor Howard Stevenson, written by longtime friend Eric C. Sinoway, examines life’s “inflection points” and how to use them to best advantage.

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

You can rise quite high in an organization by your own personal ability and by doing things better than other people. But as a CEO, you can’t do it all yourself. When you’re running a company with a presence in 170 different countries, you just can’t be there all the time. So it’s the most important part of your job to build the right team. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Achievement, Career, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Management

For decades we’ve been told to “follow your passion” to “find the career meant for you.” “Do what you love and the money will follow.” Such clichés have become a staple of commencement speeches, such as Steve Jobs’ famed 2005 address at Stanford in which he said: “There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

But what if the evidence showed that this advice will … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Matthew E. May | Source: OPEN Forum (American Express) | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

You do something all day long, don’t you? Everyone does. If you get up at seven o’clock and go to bed at eleven, you have put sixteen good hours, and it is certain that you have been doing something all that time. The only difference is that you do a great many things and I do one. If you took the time in question and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Thomas Edison | Source: Brain Pickings | Subjects: Achievement, Career, Success / Failure

Today’s work environment has been dubbed everything from the Age of Distraction and the Age of Inattention to The Multitasking Generation. The bottom line is this: regardless of your job title, we are all trying to accomplish increasingly more with increasingly less resources—whether those resources are money, time, focus, or energy. How can we achieve success—however you define it—given these constraints?

I study successful people for … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rory Vaden | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

In a world marked by constant change, the only security is your ability to produce something of value for your fellow man, and your only guarantee of happiness is your joy in producing it.

Content: Quotation | Author: William J. Reilly | Source: Brain Pickings | Subjects: Achievement, Career