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Opportunists are humble enough to realize that the random forces of nature are more powerful than themselves. That these random forces often conspire to make things ridiculously easy just as often as they conspire to create hurricanes and earthquakes. Most people realize that a lot depends on being in the right place at the right time. Very few realize that this situation is not the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Venkatesh Rao | Source: ribbonfarm | Subjects: Achievement, Creativity, Opportunity

While people in the business community hear a lot about the importance of work/life balance, it’s often unclear exactly what that phrase means or how one achieves it. Stewart Friedman, founding director of Wharton’s Leadership Program and the Work/Life Integration Project, thinks he has an answer. In his new book, titled Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life, Friedman describes the four … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Stewart D. Friedman | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Personal Development

Some of the top colleges and universities in the world provide free business administration courses online. Here is a list of the best sources.

Content: Article | Source: DegreeDirectory | Subjects: Education, Free Stuff / Tools, MBA Related, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

This chart is meant to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and give you a better idea of whether you’re ready to become a small business owner. It could also be useful in your career exploration or even in a more conventional SWOT analysis exercise.

Content: Article | Source: MBA in a Day | Subjects: Career, Management, Personal Development

People of genius are admired. People of wealth are envied. People of power are feared. But only people of character are trusted.

Content: Quotation | Author: Arthur Friedman | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Character

When it comes to managing our anxiety, it’s time to evolve. Anxiety is as much a fact of life today as it was for our ancestors. How we use it makes all the difference. If we let it overwhelm us, it will turn to panic. If we deny or run from it, we will become complacent. But if we use … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Robert Rosen | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Personal Development

Book summaries can be a useful tool to time-starved souls who want to keep up with business thought, trends, concepts, etc. In the spirit of summarizing, here is a summary of the various book summary services along with some free resources.

UPDATED December 2015

Content: Member-Contributed Content | Author: Jeff Blum | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips, Products & Services

An expert’s job is to be right — to solve the client’s problems through the application of technical and professional skill. The advisor behaves differently. Rather than being in the right, the advisor’s job is to be helpful, providing guidance, input, and counseling to the client’s own thought and decision-making processes. The client retains control and responsibility at all times; the advisor’s role is subordinate … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David Maister | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Consulting / Analytical Tools, Decision Making, Expertise

He who have never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers — it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

Content: Quotation | Author: Herman Melville | Source: Bruce Lynn Blog | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

If I had select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down 70 times and get off the floor saying, ‘Here comes number 71!

Content: Quotation | Author: Richard M. Devos | Source: Bruce Lynn Blog | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

Make Your Contacts Count is a practical, step-by-step guide for creating, cultivating, and capitalizing on networking relationships and opportunities. Packed with valuable tools, the book offers a field-tested “Hello to Goodbye” system that takes readers from entering a room, to making conversations flow, to following up. Updated from its first edition, the book now includes expanded advice on building social capital at work and in … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Anne Baber, Lynne Waymon | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.

Content: Quotation | Author: Warren Buffett | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Yesbutters don�t just kill ideas.
They kill companies, even entire industries.
The yesbutters have all the answers. Yesbut we�re different.
Yesbut we can�t afford it.
Yesbut our business doesn�t need it.
Yesbut we couldn�t sell it to our workforce.
Yesbut we can�t explain it to our shareholders.
Yesbut let�s wait and see.
All the answers. All the wrong answers.

Whynotters move Companies.

The next time you�re in a meeting, look around and identify
the yesbutters, the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Unknown | Subjects: Achievement, Attitude, Organizational Behavior

There is no point in trying to assess people’s abilities without first finding out what they care about. The same goes for trying to assess things such as “leadership potential” or “creativity” out of context. One has always to ask, in relation to what?

Content: Quotation | Author: Robert J. Thomas | Source: 800-CEO-READ (8CR) | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Personal Development, Potential

Know Can Do! is a teaching parable in the tradition of Ken Blanchard’s bestselling business books. It tells the story of a well known author who is troubled by the gap between what people know: all the good advice they’ve digested intellectually from books and seminars, and what they actually do. Seeking a way to close this learning-doing gap, the author sets out on a … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Dick Ruhe, Ken Blanchard, Paul J. Meyer | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

An environment that supports learning has four distinguishing characteristics: psychological safety, appreciation of differences, openness to new ideas, time for reflection.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Amy Edmondson, David Garvin | Source: BNET | Subjects: Learning, Organizational Behavior

It sounds simple, but in fact you could capture all of my research findings with the metaphor of a saltshaker. Instead of filling it with salt, fill it with all the ways you can say yes, and that’s what a good relationship is. “Yes,” you say, “that is a good idea.” “Yes, that’s a great point, I never thought of that.” “Yes, let’s do that … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: John M. Gottman | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

In this skillful lecture, Professor Patrick Winston of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers tips on how to give an effective talk, cleverly illustrating his suggestions by using them himself. He emphasizes how to start a lecture, cycling in on the material, using verbal punctuation to indicate transitions, describing “near misses” that strengthen the intended concept, and asking questions. He also talks about using the … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Patrick Winston | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Personal Development

Psychologist, author and Harvard professor Gardner (Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons) has put together a thought-provoking, visionary attempt to delineate the kinds of mental abilities (“minds”) that will be critical to success in a 21st century landscape of accelerating change and information overload. Gardner’s five minds-disciplined, synthesizing, creating, respectful and ethical-are not personality types, but ways of thinking available to anyone who invests the time and … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Howard E. Gardner | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Peter Drucker describes seven personal experiences that taught him how to grow, change, and age. [Hat Tip to Personal MBA]

Content: Article | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: People, Personal Development