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When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter, living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog – gapingvoid.com – and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures.

MacLeod has opinions on everything from marketing to the meaning of life, but one of … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Hugh MacLeod | Subjects: Innovation, Personal Development

MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself.

Content: Article | Author: Hugh MacLeod | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Innovation, Personal Development

What can science fiction accomplish that management books cannot?

Content: Article | Author: Michael E. Raynor | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subject: Personal Development

I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God’s. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business.

Content: Quotation | Author: Byron Katie | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible…If the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility.

So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude….But no real excellence, personal or social, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: William Deresiewics | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Misapplying experience is perhaps the surest route to failure.

Content: Quotation | Author: Tom Ruby | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Experience, Success / Failure

The F Score test reveals which fascination triggers (there are 7) you naturally apply, which others you should consider, and how to refine them to become more persuasive.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Sally Hogshead | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Talk is powerful. And it isn’t just `difficult’ conversations that matter–the everyday dialogue we have with one another is critical to both personal and organizational success. Packed with sample dialogues and dozens of personal stories, and backed by solid research and the authors’ firsthand observations, The Four Conversations describes how to get maximum results from conversations that every one of us must use to get … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Jeffrey Ford, Laurie Ford | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Nations, like individuals, languish when they only have uncritical lovers or unloving critics.

Content: Quotation | Author: Kishore Mahbubani | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Content: Quotation | Author: Dale Carnegie | Subject: Character

The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.

Content: Quotation | Author: Abigail Van Buren | Subject: Character

Human beings have this thing I call the “Pissed Off Gene.” Itʼs that bit of our psyche that makes us utterly dissatisfied with our lot, no matter how kindly fortune smiles upon us.

Content: Quotation | Author: Hugh MacLeod | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Achievement

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Content: Quotation | Author: Andrew Carnegie | Subjects: Achievement, Goals, Personal Development

Rather than seeking out contrary or little-understood points of view, many of us need so badly to be told we’re right that we’ll pay people to do it.

Content: Quotation | Author: Michael E. Raynor | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Learning, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

We’re awash in data. Here’s how to make yours matter.

Content: Article | Authors: Chip Heath, Dan Heath | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Personal Development, Statistics

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Wooden | Subject: Achievement

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Wooden | Subjects: Change Management, Personal Development

Without an awareness of your strengths, it’s almost impossible for you to lead effectively. We all lead in very different ways, based on our talents and our limitations. Serious problems occur when we think we need to be exactly like the leaders we admire. Doing so takes us out of our natural element and practically eliminates our chances of success.

Content: Article | Authors: Barry Conchie, Tom Rath | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Wooden | Subjects: Experience, Success / Failure

Our rational brain has a problem focus when it needs a solution focus. If you are a manager, ask yourself, What is the ratio of the time you spend solving problems versus scaling successes? We need to switch from archaeological problem solving to bright-spot evangelizing.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Chip Heath, Dan Heath | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development