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Neuroscientist Tali Sharot comes on stage to discuss the “optimism bias.” It’s a topic that she’s been studying in her lab and she claims that 80% of us experience it. “It” being the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of good things happening to us. As she puts it: “we’re more optimistic than realistic, and we’re oblivious about it.”

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Tali Sharot | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Body language is critical to your effectiveness in working with other people, says social psychology researcher Deborah Gruenfeld.

Content: Article | Author: Deborah H. Gruenfeld | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

Tony Robbins discusses the “invisible forces” that motivate everyone’s actions — and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Tony Robbins | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Philip Zimbardo | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Millions of meetings and presentations occur daily. Each of these presentations is meant to drive ‘someone’ to do ‘something.’ And what do the vast majority of these presentations have in common? Unfortunately, they usually fail to get anyone to do anything.

There are so many noble causes led by charismatic, effective leaders, yet it is still difficult for many of these leaders to establish a clear … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Matt Eventoff | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Personal Development

We all struggle with learning in life. Most of our learning is experience-based, and in most cases we accumulate it as individuals. As adolescents, we did not have much interest in learning from our elders. Now, as managers in corporations, many of us act similarly, continuing to insist on learning from our own mistakes. Practical executives justify this by asserting there is no substitute for … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: John R. Harbison, Peter Pekar, Jr., Ph.D. | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Learning

What is the question we always ask about the successful? We want to know what they’re like – what kind of personalities they have, or how intelligent they are, or what kind of lifestyles they have, or what special talents they might have been born with. And we assume that it is those personal qualities that explain how that individual reached the top … I … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Malcolm Gladwell | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Achievement, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

As executives become more senior, they are less likely to receive constructive performance and strategic feedback. They can get it by calling on their junior colleagues.

Content: Article | Author: Robert S. Kaplan | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Although we need not “correct” for luck when allocating economic reward it is worth considering the role of luck when allocating other valuable commodities, such as our moral approbation and our efforts to learn from the experiences of others. Those who win lotteries justifiably get to keep the money, but few of us admire lottery winners just because they won the lottery. (Don’t confuse envy … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Jeff Schulz , Michael E. Raynor, Mumtaz Ahmed | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Achievement, Luck

The interested person will do what is convenient. The committed person will do whatever it takes.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Commitment

“I will tell you how to become rich. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”

Content: Quotation | Author: Warren Buffett | Subjects: Market/Investment, Personal Development, Success / Failure

Business leaders manage goals by setting and systematically striving to achieve them. While management and organizational researchers have laid the groundwork for goal management, the emerging field of Positive Psychology appears to offer many additional findings and insights that will help managerial leaders be more effective as they define and pursue goals. Factors such as character strengths, optimism, and resilience can play significant roles in … [ Read more ]

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

Don’t wait for perfection, praise progress.

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael Wagner | Subjects: Achievement, Progress

Here is an article by Chip Conley (founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about what makes people tick) and based on his new book, Emotional Equations. Four equations covered:
DESPAIR = SUFFERING – MEANING
HAPPINESS = WANTING WHAT YOU HAVE / HAVING WHAT YOU WANT
ANXIETY = UNCERTAINTY x POWERLESSNESS
CURIOSITY = WONDER + AWE

Content: Article | Author: Chip Conley | Subject: Personal Development

Contrary to popular belief, whether you’re taking a test or buying a stock, it may pay to rethink your choice.

Content: Article | Authors: Dale T. Miller, Derrick Wirtz, Justin Kruger, Pragya Mathur | Source: STERNbusiness (NYU) | Subject: Personal Development

Often CEOs know what they’re good at and spend time to hone those skills, but it can be hard to see the flipside of those strengths. For example, a CEO who sees himself as efficient may be viewed by employees as abrupt or uncaring. Or a leader who strives to be thoughtful and strategic may be perceived as moving too slowly. Being mindful of the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Andrew Gilman, Cheryl Strauss Einhorn | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Personal Development

JD Schramm helps develop the art and science of tight story-telling for social impact.

Content: Article | Author: JD Schramm | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Personal Development

James M. Kouzes, coauthor (with Barry Z. Posner) of The Leadership Challenge, introduces a passage on the importance of remembering where you started that appears in From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership, by Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr.

Content: Article | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Personal Development