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One of the great false assumptions in leadership development is, “if they understand, they will do”. If this were true, everyone who understood the importance of going on a healthy diet and exercising would be in shape.

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one’s body in “high-power” poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when it’s needed.

Content: Article | Authors: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Julia Hanna | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Successful people will almost always respond constructively to advice and input when they are involved in selecting the behaviors and selecting the advisors. By making the process confidential (not identifying raters), people will tend to focus on what they need to improve, not who did the rating. It is hard to deny the validity of items that we say are important as evaluated … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

When successful people write down goals, announce these goals to respected colleagues and involve the colleagues in helping them improve (in a supportive way), positive measurable change is much more likely to occur.

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

Successful people are much more likely to change by envisioning a positive future than by reliving a humiliating past. Proving that a successful person was “wrong” is often a counter-productive waste of time. Successful people respond well to getting ideas and suggestions for the future that are aimed at helping them achieve their goals.

Content: Quotation | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jean Paul Sartre | Subject: Personal Development

It’s a question most of us have asked ourselves: What makes successful people so, well, successful? It’s tempting to think that those at the top of their fields know something the rest of us mere mortals don’t. But that “special something” you’ve been searching for isn’t an uncanny ability to predict the market’s future, a membership in MENSA, or a secret business formula. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Maribeth Kuzmeski | Source: American Management Association (AMA) | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

You make decisions every day based on false assumptions about other people, immediate pay-offs, your memory versus imagination, and familiarity versus fondness, just to name a few. Want to learn more about your mind’s crazy decision engine? This illustrated guide can help. [Lifehacker Annotation]

Content: Article | Source: Royal Society of Account Planning | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

We have all made decisions we regret, and while we may hate the sinking feeling that often follows, research by Neal Roese shows the emotion we all share has its benefits.

Content: Article | Author: Neal Roese | Source: Kellogg Insight | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Trust your gut instincts—but only when four tests have been met.

Content: Article | Authors: Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Executives have to be in the job long enough, not only for their successes to visit them, but for their failures to visit them. We all have both.

Content: Quotation | Author: George Buckley | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Personal Development

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I hear people every day offer very valid excuses why they don’t try to improve how they communicate. Some people think it’s too hard. Others don’t know where to go for help. The most repeated excuse from people at work and in their personal lives that could be so much happier with some focused, intentional new habits: ‘I don’t have time.’ Every single one of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jon Wortmann | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Personal Development

UCLA professor Noah Goldstein on scientifically proven ways to be persuasive

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Noah J. Goldstein | Source: UCLA | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Fight as if you are right, and listen as if you are wrong.

Content: Quotation | Author: Karl E. Weick | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Personal Development

Experience is not the best teacher; it is not even a good teacher. It is too slow, too imprecise, and too ambiguous. Experimentation is faster, more precise, and less ambiguous. We have to design systems which are managed experimentally, as opposed to experientially.

Content: Quotation | Author: Russell L. Ackoff | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Experience

As I age, I gain perspective on the illusion of wealth and status as forms of fulfillment. I don’t want my life to be measured by dollars and cents, or the number of books I’ve authored. Rather, I want to be remembered by the lives that I’ve touched. I want live a life that counts.

Content: Article | Author: John Maxwell | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

When you build an audience, you don’t have to buy people’s attention—they give it to you. This is a huge advantage. So build an audience. Speak, write, blog, tweet, make videos, whatever. Share information that’s valuable and you’ll slowly but surely build a loyal audience. Then, when you need to get the word out, the right people will already be listening.

Content: Quotation | Authors: David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personal Development

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling. [Hat tip to Brad Feld]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Simon Sinek | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Why do people succeed? Is it because they’re smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Richard St. John | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Career, Personal Development