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Every great product or service started out as just a sparkle in someone’s eye. Whether you want to invent the next must-have technology or simply convince your boss to add another coffee machine, the key to turning your idea into reality is to make sure the right people take it seriously.

Content: Article | Author: Geoffrey James | Source: BNET | Subject: Personal Development

The performance culture really is in deep conflict with the learning culture. It’s an unusual executive who can balance these.

Content: Quotation | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Learning, Management

This ChangeThis manifesto brings our attention to the ‘Seven Sins of Solutions’, the traditional ways of thinking that prevent us from divining the most accurate-and elegant-of solutions to any problem solving situation.

Content: Article | Author: Matthew E. May | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Innovation, Personal Development

PowerPoint recently (and quietly) celebrated its 20th birthday. Why do some people love it while others passionately hate it?

And how can we learn from its strength and its limitations, to be better and more effective communicators?

Content: Article | Author: Abhay Padgaonkar | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

Marshall Goldsmith, the founder of executive coaching firm Marshall Goldsmith Partners, has worked closely with more than 70 CEOs during his career. Forbes has named him one of the five most respected executive coaches. The Wall Street Journal ranks him among the top 10 executive educators. Now Goldsmith has assembled a book that distills the wisdom he and his stable of coaches usually dispense in … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Fame can be a vapor, money has wings, popularity can be an accident. The only thing lasting in life is character.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Pundit | Subject: Character

True and lasting security comes from constant growth and development. We can’t manage change, but we can be change opportunists. The higher our rate of personal growth and development, the more likely we are to master the opportunities change unexpectedly throws in front of us. To master change and build a life of ever-deeper growth, we need to make learning a way of life rather … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Learning, Personal Development

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine…it’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.

And … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Zaadz | Subjects: Ability, Achievement

Today we live in a business culture that abuses the art and science of public speaking. We power up our PCs and present dull presentations to audiences who want to be inspired but never get fulfilled. Schwertly believes an effective presentation can change the world.

Content: Article | Author: Scott Schwertly | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Personal Development

Not offering a self-help book, but instead mounting a scientific explanation of the limitations of the human imagination and how it steers us wrong in our search for happiness, Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard, draws on psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy and behavioral economics to argue that, just as we err in remembering the past, so we err in imagining the future. “Our desire … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Daniel Gilbert | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

The principal obstruction to what we want most is ourselves. Our tendency, when we stand where we are and look toward what we want, is to see all kinds of obstructions imposed from without. When we change our point of view and look backward at where we are from where we want to be, in many cases the obstructions disappear.

Content: Quotation | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Ability, Perception

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgement is the treasurer of a wise man.

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Judgement, Knowledge

Why do highly intelligent and capable business leaders, backed by an army of talent and a flood of information, make so many extremely expensive mistakes? This article looks at the role of mental models in decision making and forecasting and suggests effective and efficient methods for improving.

Content: Article | Author: Max More | Source: ManyWorlds | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Positive people tend to do better in the workplace, and it isn’t just because people like them more than naysayers. Positive people cognitively process more efficiently and more appropriately. If you’re in a negative mood, a fair amount of processing is going to that mood. When you’re in a positive mood, you’re more open to taking in information and handling it effectively.

Content: Quotation | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Attitude, Organizational Behavior

Long silences. Tapping PDAs. The faint buzz of snoring. Sound like a meeting you led recently? Use these BNET tips to make face-time more focused and productive.

Content: Article | Author: Cyrus Farivar | Source: BNET | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Magazine and journal articles are usually the best forum for bold and original arguments…most books…tend to have (at best) a kernel of an important idea, padded with superfluous case studies and second-rate reporting.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Atlantic Monthly | Subject: Learning

According to a Stanford psychologist, you’ll reach new heights if you learn to embrace the occasional tumble.

Content: Article | Authors: Carol Dweck, Marina Krakovsky | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Preparing for a big speech? Resources on the Web can help.

Content: Article | Author: Rachael King | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Personal Development

In terms of managing human capital to drive the bottom line, most companies operate on two false assumptions. One is that people can be anything they want to be if they try hard enough. The second is that each person’s greatest room for growth is in his or her areas of greatest weakness.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Ability, Human Resources

Commitment is the emotional attachment one has to the organisation within which one works and the pride one has in its achievements. Engagement, on the other hand, is more – the demonstration of discretionary effort to ensure the organisation achieves its goals.

Two insights influence how we think through the role and development of effective leaders and managers. First, there is likely to be a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Commitment, Organizational Behavior