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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Knowledge, Learning

Of all the people you work with, who would you least like to be stranded alone with on a desert island? While your worst nightmare is an unlikely scenario, problem people are permanent workplace fixtures, leaving you nowhere to run. Learning some emotional survival skills can help ease the pain of close encounters you can’t avoid.

Content: Article | Author: Carol Orsag Madigan | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Content: Quotation | Source: 800-CEO-READ (8CR) | Subjects: Ability, Potential

Possibility is only a word about bringing forth out of nothingness something we desire to become present, but possibility may be the most powerful word in our language because it enables us to visualize and strive for a future that is not available to us in the present. Possibility is like a time warp, allowing one to escape from the limits our past into an … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Ability, Future

The same advice on differentiating and learning faster than your competition that is often given to companies, is equally applicable to us as individuals. In this interesting piece, Stephen Shapiro explores how to unleash your inner innovator to differentiate yourself and to find new ways of adding value to your organization.

Editor’s Note: a very interesting read, especially the bit about NASA testing children for … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Stephen M. Shapiro | Source: 24/7 Innovation | Subjects: Innovation, Personal Development

Coaches will tell you they’re as unique as snowflakes. Maybe that’s so, but it’s also helpful–and pretty easy–to boil them down into four distinct personality types. The challenge is to find the one who best suits your own sensibilities and goals.

Content: Article | Author: Alison Stein Wellner | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Ability

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’

Content: Quotation | Source: USTelecom dailyLead | Subjects: Communication, Leadership, People, Personal Development

In the working world, top performers are regularly rewarded with promotions to management–whether they are prepared for the advancement or not. Loren Belker’s bestselling primer on supervisory skills, The First-Time Manager, has long offered clear advice on leadership, motivation, discipline, and other tricks of the trade that are required of anyone in a supervisory position. Now in its fourth edition, the book features 11 new … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Gary S. Topchik, Loren B. Belker | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

The first book to combine business management and scientific studies shows how the personality traits of successful entrepreneurs may be inherited–and what you can do to make the jump from employee to entrepreneur. What exactly does it mean to be a “born leader”? Are some people naturally endowed with characteristics that lead to success? Could success be the result of something in our DNA? INSTINCT … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Mary H. Frakes, Thomas L. Harrison | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Personal Development

Our research on goal setting and our experience in coaching have helped us better understand the dynamics of what is required to actually produce positive, long-term change in behavior. We believe that the lessons executive coaches have learned in helping their clients set goals apply to leadership development in a wide variety of settings. Whether you are a professional coach, a leader coaching your direct … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Kelly Goldsmith, Marshall Goldsmith | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Everything can look like a failure in the middle.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

Many of today’s midcareer workers are well educated and have retained their love of learning. They know that increasing their skills will raise their chances for personal and professional advancement. However, many find themselves too busy for extensive education and training; personal development time comes at the sacrifice of other responsibilities, both on the job and off. And some people, especially those who have reached … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Learning, Training & Development

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Television advertisements, public presentations, business negotiations, the opening arguments in a courtroom… persuasive communication is critical in many contexts. But how can speeches move people and mobilize masses? Where does the power of words come from? The answer is not so much in what it is said, but in how it is said, or rhetoric. The term rhetoric embraces all public speaking and interpersonal communication … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Brian O’C. Leggett | Source: IESE Insight | Subject: Personal Development

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In various wisdom traditions, the lists of traits or principles may differ somewhat, but the underlying intentions are very similar. The very practice of cultivating these traits yields not only results that affect those around one, but also imbues one’s very life with a greater degree of meaning and satisfaction.

In Buddhism, these are sometimes referred to as “the paramitas of the bodhisattva” or “the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jamie S. Walters | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

In the knowledge economy, the real formula for success calls on the need to learn continuously. And to learn continuously, we must learn to see, and do, things differently.

We learn through conceptual frameworks, and we can continue to expand our knowledge incrementally within these existing frameworks.

But if we are to create new frameworks and see new opportunities, our evolving world calls on us to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Storytelling: Passport to Success in the 21st Century | Subjects: Knowledge, Learning

In a global economy, it is crucial for business people to be sensitive to cultural differences. And although the best reason for doing so may be ethical, it’s great for business as well! This is an invaluable book for “doing well while doing good” in your intercultural relations, covering the protocols of appointments, business entertaining, greetings, forms of address, gestures, dress, and gifts in 60 … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: George Borden, Terri Morrison, Wayne Conway | Subjects: International, Personal Development

FT’s management editor examines the state of the business book publishing world.

Content: Article | Author: Simon London | Source: FT.com | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development