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Dividing qualities into “strengths” and “weaknesses” implicitly ignores strengths overdone. Given this incomplete mental model, it is no surprise that most leadership 360s employ five-point rating scales in which high scores are the best. Such tools overlook a key lesson from decades of research on derailment: More is not always better, and executives lose their jobs when their strengths become weaknesses through overuse.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Robert B. Kaiser, Robert E. Kaplan | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Personal Development

Taking a scattershot approach when networking is the biggest mistake we see people make. Don’t try one mailing, one dinner, and one speech – in rapid succession – then say, “Well, those things don’t work!” Neither does joining all the area Chambers of Commerce and an alphabet soup of civic and service clubs. But strategic networking can bring in the business. Use these … [ Read more ]

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

In today’s diverse workplace, your actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image before others do it for you. An interview with professor Laura Morgan Roberts.

Content: Article | Authors: Laura Morgan Roberts, Mallory Stark | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Mortensen (Maximum Influence) draws on Howard Gardner’s research on multiple forms of intelligence and Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence to introduce his concept of PQ—the specialized intelligence required for the art of persuasion. While the book is primarily geared toward marketing and sales professionals, the author argues that the inability to command influence is a universal personal and professional dilemma; he makes a compelling case that … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Kurt Mortensen | Subject: Personal Development

Of course, failure isn’t an experience to be deliberately sought, and cushioning ourselves against its harshest blows makes perfect sense. But failure isn’t something to be despised or ashamed of, either. That’s not a message we hear a lot about these days. Yet some of history’s most impressive successes started out as big, fat failures. The stories of the world’s most successful failures suggest … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Marisa Taylor | Source: Ode | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Happy Brain Storming offers a somewhat poorly written article, but one which is full of useful character trait considerations for evaluating personality. These character traits come after a muddling introduction which you may wish to skim/skip. [Hat Tip to LifeHacker]

Content: Article | Source: Happy Brain Storming | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances – to choose one’s own way.

Content: Quotation | Author: Victor Frankl | Subject: Attitude

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Content: Quotation | Author: Antoine de Saint Exupery | Subject: Attitude

Making quality decisions is an intricate tapestry of experience, inquiry, and judgment that converge to form solutions. According to Michael Sacks and Steve Walton, professors at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, there are strategies that can be adopted to make the process more effective.

Content: Article | Authors: Michael Sacks, Steve Walton | Source: Knowledge@Emory | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Understanding and Changing Your Management Style, by psychologist and business consultant Robert Benfari, is a hands-on guidebook for determining the type of leader you are–and becoming the kind you want to be. It includes methods that you can use to influence others, problem-solving techniques, and exercises that reveal your psychological nature according to the widely used Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Using the resultant patterns, the book … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Robert C. Benfari | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

True greatness has never been achieved in 8 hours a day, five days a week, with a four week vacation per year.

Content: Quotation | Author: Anthony F. Smith | Source: Emerald for Managers | Subject: Achievement

Resilience is an enormous concept. It plays out in all domains of our lives, and until the work of Drs. Andrew Shatté and Karen Reivich, co-authors of The Resilience Factor, resilience was seen only as a single competency. Their research has shown that resilience is actually made up of 7 factors, or inner strengths – Emotion Regulation, Impulse Control, Causal Analysis, Self-efficacy, Realistic Optimism, Empathy, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dean M. Becker | Source: Emerald for Managers | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

There are two major job responsibilities of a CEO. One is Chief Strategist. The other is Chief Story Teller. Considering that many people would rather die than speak in public, including CEO’s, comes this concise article detailing the 8P’s of Persuasive Presentations.

Content: Article | Author: Rosemary Rein Ph.D. | Subject: Personal Development

In this book you will find ten simple principles that will dispel your dread of networking forever and reveal a proven path to success and happiness. Imagine mastering the skills to create an extraordinary marriage, lifelong friendships, or powerful and enriching business relationships. That is what awaits you in Click: the tools to tap into the richest resource on the planet–other people–no matter how hard … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: George Fraser | Subject: Personal Development

In her book, Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace, Michalle E. Mor Barak talks about how ancient Chinese tradition divides people into categories based on four qualities: Shi (scholars), Nong (farmers), Gong (artisans) and Shang (merchants). The belief is that to be a fully effective leader, one must acquire the ” . . . vision and ethics of the scholar, the appreciation and respect … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Al Vivian, Michalle E. Mor Barak | Subjects: Diversity, Leadership, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Content: Quotation | Author: Eric Hoffer | Source: Adventure of Strategy | Subjects: Change Management, Learning

Talent only matures when harnessed within a personality that is capable of self-improvement. And talent, ironically, has a nasty knack of protecting the talented from the urge to self-improve.

Content: Quotation | Author: Ed Smith | Source: Ode | Subjects: Ability, Achievement, Success / Failure

The opposite of success is not failure, but mediocrity. To achieve big successes, you need to take big risks; if you take little or no risks, mediocrity is guaranteed.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Marisa Taylor, Michael E. Raynor | Source: Ode | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

The conventional wisdom about “natural” talent is a myth. The real path to great performance is a matter of choice.

Content: Article | Author: Geoffrey Colvin | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Life is short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgment difficult.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience misleading and judgment difficult.

Content: Quotation | Author: Hippocrates | Subjects: Experience, Judgement, Life, Wisdom