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Somehow I can’t believe there are many heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C’s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way. Have confidence in your ability to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Subject: Achievement

All presenters want an engaged, interested, fully attentive audience. For your message to be most effectively received, the audience must hear it. While there are many ways to gain and maintain your audience’s attention during a presentation, getting them actively involved in the message is the best place to start. Here are 12 tactics to get your audiences more involved in your presentation and your … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jody Gilbert | Source: TechRepublic | Subject: Personal Development

Many managers disdain “process” – organizations that put a premium on “the way things have always been done around here” over those that champion bold and rapid decision making. Ironically, as this author states, making the right decision is less important than focusing on how the decision is made – the process. In a compelling argument he makes the case that examining how decisions are … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Michael A. Roberto | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Personal Development

The GMAT is a surrogate of IQ because it measures analytic abilities. Getting in the 90th percentile positions you for a career platform that starts out at a very high level. But, everyone else on that career platform has similar cognitive aptitudes. There’s very little to distinguish you on an intellectual basis. The other aptitudes turn out to matter more for real-world success, because there … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Goleman | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Achievement, Intelligence

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can’t help but push you forward.

Content: Quotation | Author: Seth Godin | Subjects: Attitude, Management, Personal Development

Here’s a test of your current level of influence in your organization. Do people hold up meetings, waiting for you to arrive to make important contributions or interpretations of current events? Do people remember what you say and perhaps quote you in other places and venues? Do people tell your stories and share your lessons as though those stories belong to them? Do people learn … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James E. Lukaszewski | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Barack Obama | Source: Bruce Lynn Blog | Subject: Achievement

Stories are all around us. Stories move us, make us feel alive, inspire us to be more than we would be otherwise. Our appetite for stories is a reflection of the basic human need to understand patterns of life — not merely as an intellectual exercise but as a personal, emotional experience. Learning how to tell a story cannot guarantee the reaching of Truth, but … [ Read more ]

Content: Case Study | Author: Jennifer L. Aaker | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Personal Development

Psychologist Jerome Bruner contends that individual learning requires the construction of a mental model of reality to make meaning of our lives. In Actual Minds, PossibleWorlds (Harvard University Press, 1987), he suggested that there were two complementary ways of building such models. The first is the narrative method, or the telling of stories, and the second is the paradigmatic method, or the formation of logical … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: David K. Hurst, Jerome Bruner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Learning, Storytelling

You have two ears and one mouth for a reason. Use them in that proportion.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

Self-image at work is a critical and often overlooked factor in the process of change. People change jobs and careers, but rarely do they think about changing their self-image. Perhaps that’s because self-image operates just below awareness, but still colors our perceptions, emotions and actions. Leaders who are not conscious of this fact tend to cling to their old self-image that keeps them from changing. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Rick Lash | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Power made me a coat. For a long time I kept it in the back of my closet. I didn’t like to wear it much but I always took good care of it. When I first started wearing it again, it smelled like mothballs. As I wore it more, it started fitting better, and stopped smelling like mothballs.

I was afraid if I wore the coat … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: J. Ruth Gendler | Source: Hold this Thought | Subjects: Personal Development, Power / Authority

Speed reading used to require months of training. Now you can rev up your reading in just a few minutes a day. With quizzes to determine your present reading level and exercises to quickly introduce new skills, this book is a must for anyone feeling pressed for time.

Content: Book | Author: Abby Marks-Beale | Subject: Personal Development

Many of the books articles and other documents you’ll read during your undergraduate and graduate years, and possibly during the rest of your professional life won’t be novels. Instead, they’ll be nonfiction textbooks, manuals, journal articles, histories, academic studies, and so on.

The purpose of reading things like this is to gain and retain information. Here finding out what happens—as quickly and easily as possible—is your … [ Read more ]

Content: Related Content | Author: Paul N. Edwards | Subject: Personal Development

Gratitude has received little serious attention in the literature on job attitudes. This may be because most people see it as a spontaneous emotional response to an external event. But University of California psychologist Robert Emmons makes a compelling argument that gratitude is better thought of as a discipline or a skill, more akin to goal-setting or time management, rather than simply another dimension of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: E. L. Kersten | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Attitude, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

You are not talented at your job. You never will be. But wait: That’s the good news—because talent, argues Geoff Colvin, doesn’t exist in the first place—at least not in the traditional sense of the word. It is not, he points out, an innate ability. The sooner you realize that Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and you were not meant to be great business … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Geoffrey Colvin, Vadim Liberman | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Readers who accept poet and Fortune 500 consultant Whyte’s invitation to enter into “an imaginative conversation about life and work” are likely to be challenged as well as delighted by the beauty of his writing and the expansiveness of his views. Gracefully using the metaphor of a sea voyage to depict the journey through the world of work, Whyte views work not only as a … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David Whyte | Subjects: Career, Miscellaneous, Personal Development

Are you surprised to see how little you spend on meeting new people and re-connecting with long-time contacts? Or are you shocked to realize how much you spend and want more return on your investment? If you want to make the most of your memberships here are 10 tips. They’ll help you enhance your reputation, establish your credibility, and raise your visibility.

Content: Member-Contributed Content | Authors: Anne Baber, Lynne Waymon | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Are you an enforcer, philosopher, judge, angel, teacher or guardian? Find out the composition of your moral DNA with our test.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Roger Steare | Source: The Times | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Although the cost of excessive caution is harder to measure than that of recklessness, it is no less real.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Achievement, Management, Organizational Behavior