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In this seminal book on helping, corporate culture and organizational development guru Ed Schein analyzes the dynamics of helping relationships, explains why help is often not helpful, and shows what any would-be-helper must do to insure that help is actually provided.

Many words are used for helping — assisting, aiding, advising, coaching, consulting, counseling, supporting, teaching, and many more — but they all have common dynamics … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Edgar H. Schein | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

If you’re remarkable, then it’s likely that some people won’t like you. That’s part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise — ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.

Content: Quotation | Author: Seth Godin | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Achievement

QuickMBA is an online knowledge resource for business administration. Our goal is to help you to quickly find the business knowledge you need, when you need it, wherever you may be. Topics are presented as frameworks and summaries in the various subjects of business administration, as taught in the world’s top MBA programs.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Internet Center for Management and Business Administration Inc. | Subjects: Education, MBA Related, Personal Development

It is very difficult to be the captain of your own destiny, when you are always a passenger in somebody else’s ship.

Content: Quotation | Author: Roberto Goizueta | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Although becoming a leader may seem simple, the fact is that there’s a lot of consideration that goes into management. You not only have to stay on top of your team, but make sure that you’re fostering communication, growth and productivity. Here, we’ll take a look at a number of high quality courses that will show you how to take care of these issues and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Job Profiles | Subjects: Education, Personal Development

Trying to implant a goal that is incongruent with the self-image is like trying to plant a grain by dropping seeds on rock-hard, bone-dry ground. No one can consistently out perform his or her self-image. No one can overcome it with willpower. No one can sneak past it and perform in an incongruent manner. The bottom line is that you cannot “do” things without “being” … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Maxwell Maltz | Subjects: Achievement, Goals, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Getting a business education doesn’t have to be expensive. An increasing number of colleges, universities and even nonprofit organizations offer free business courses online. Find out how you can sign up for these courses and what you can get from them.

Content: Article | Source: Education-Portal.com | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools, Personal Development

The man who preserves his selfhood is ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence.

Content: Quotation | Author: Ohiyesa | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

In a world of uncertainty, we could all use a little advice. So we asked a host of influential leaders to share with us the wise words that changed their lives forever.

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

The co-founder and CEO of the $1 billion company offers advice on how to shape and articulate your vision for your own brand.

Content: Article | Author: Carmine Gallo | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Personal Development

Progress is not created by contented people.

Content: Quotation | Author: Frank Tyger | Source: 800-CEO-READ (8CR) | Subjects: Achievement, Progress

Ability is a poor man’s wealth.

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

Richard Ludlow launched Academic Earth with the goal of building a user-friendly platform for educational video that would let anyone be able to freely access instruction from the scholars and guest lecturers at the leading academic universities. The site offers 60 full courses and 2,395 total lectures (almost 1300 hours of video) from Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Princeton that can be browsed … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools, MBA Related, Personal Development

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Wooden | Subjects: Adversity, Personal Development

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

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

Some people seem to have unlimited self-generated morale. These almost always succeed. At the other extreme, there are people who seem to have no ability to do this; they need a boss to motivate them. In the middle there is a large band of people who have some, but not unlimited, ability to motivate themselves. These can succeed through careful morale management (and some luck). … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Paul Graham | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Achievement, Human Resources, Management, Motivation, Organizational Behavior

Socrates established that while there is value in finding affirmation for existing assumptions and beliefs, the most useful learning occurs through falsification. Falsification requires the discipline of reason and hypothesis testing. What are the assumptions behind this proposal? What data or evidence would we need to prove those assumptions to be false? What do we believe to be true that is actually untrue? What do … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Lynda Gratton | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Knowledge, Learning, Thought

The first and paramount responsibility of anyone who purports to manage is to manage self: one’s own integrity, character, ethics, knowledge, wisdom, temperament, words, and acts. It is a complex, unending, incredibly difficult, oft-shunned task. We spend little time and rarely excel at management of self precisely because it is so much more difficult than prescribing and controlling the behavior of others. However, without management … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dee Hock | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Personal Development

There are three categories of people in this world. The first is the individual who wakes up in the morning and goes into the office and proceeds to dream. The second category is the individual who gets up in the morning, goes into the office, and proceeds to work 16 hours a day. The third is the individual who comes into the office, dreams for … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Steve Ross | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Know Thyself means separating who you are and who you want to be from what the world thinks you are and wants you to be.

Content: Quotation | Author: Warren Bennis | Source: LeaderValues | Subject: Personal Development