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Someone has summarized Dale Carnegie’s two most prominent books, How to Win Friends and Influence People, and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living along with Dorothy Carnegie’s The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking and Don’t Grow Old – Grow Up!

Content: Article | Source: The Dale Carnegie Page | Subject: Personal Development

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Achievement, Goals

When you look at your personal and professional life, the most important decisions you will make revolve around how you invest your effort, time, and energy. There are only two things you can do with your time. You can spend your time in activity or productivity. Activities are things that consume minutes and hours and get you no closer to your goals and objectives. Productivity … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

The learning function must…harvest the fruits of collaboration when possible and appropriate – fruits called “innovations” – and it must help divert that collaborative energy somewhere else when it is not appropriate. This latter point is something not often discussed in the literature on innovation. That is, there is a time for innovation and a time for executing on previous innovations. You can’t get anywhere … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Innovation, Learning

In a knowledge-intensive world of ceaseless innovation and change, I assert, every professional must be a leader. This is not a universally popular idea. Some people say, “leadership is fine for others, but I just want a job”. I want to argue that it doesn’t work that way. The skills that the leader exercises in building a critical mass of opinion around emerging issues are … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Philip E. Agre | Source: UCLA | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

What makes people great at small talk? However quickly they can transcend the meaningless chitchat about the weather and what company they work for and engage their conversation partners in discussions about stuff that really matters – like their favorite hobbies, their troublesome teenage children, their frustrations at work, their family relationships that really put a strain on them. Only when you talk with someone … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Sources: 800-CEO-READ (8CR), ChangeThis | Subjects: Communication, Personal Development

One way to approach lifelong learning is to think about what’s threatening your job or your company. Go find out about the thing that threatens you. Understand it. You might pick the wrong company, but what you will learn will always be valuable.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Learning

The higher up the corporate ladder an executive climbs, the more important it becomes for that individual to operate effectively and to do so reliably. Organizational effectiveness involves more than the sum of the effectiveness of individuals, but must be built on top of this foundation. Self-improvement books have been an American tradition for decades, but one of the most popular and enduring is Stephen … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: ManyWorlds | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

How much culture lurks in common conversation? According to Craig Storti, so much that many of our most common, seemingly innocent exchanges (in social settings, on the job, in the world of business) are cultural minefields waiting to explode. These explosions (cultural misunderstandings) can cause confusion, irritation, even alienation. At the workplace and in the world of business, these explosions undermine communication, threaten important relationships, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Craig Storti | Subjects: International, Personal Development

Because knowledge generation is guided by the same basic philosophy that guides the development of expertise, there is littler opportunity to escape its straitjacket: if we wield the logic of specialization and simplification, every phenomenon looks simple and easily decomposable.

Content: Quotation | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Expertise, Knowledge

What you want is better than, not optimal. Your job is to do something today that’s better than what you did yesterday. And to do something tomorrow that’s better than what you did today.

Content: Quotation | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Achievement, Goals

One of the most pervasive emotions in the workplace today is fear.The reason that there is so much fear is that everybody wants to build a learning organization, but nobody actually wants anyone to learn. Learning requires tolerating inefficiency and failure. If you genuinely want to build a learning organization, you have to accept the fact that learners are never as proficient as experts. Learning … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Fear / Doubt, Learning

Emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, and fear refer to feelings that signal information about relationships. For example, happiness signals harmonious relationships, whereas fear signals being threatened. Intelligence refers to the capacity to carry out abstract reasoning, recognize patterns, and compare and contrast. Emotional intelligence, then, refers to the capacity to understand and explain emotions, on the one hand, and of emotions to enhance thought, … [ Read more ]

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

Competency in technical skills is necessary to succeed in this world but they are not sufficient to thrive. The question is what can one do differently so that he or she can distinguish and move above the commodity crowd? The goal of this manifesto is to provide 25 ways to do just that.

Content: Article | Author: Rajesh Setty | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

People remember best what you say last. So in one sense, the end of your presentation is the beginning for the audience. One of the ways a speaker can ensure beginnings for an audience is by having a strong ending; this article will provide a few simple tips to achieve this concluding spark.

Content: Article | Author: Stephen D. Boyd, Ph.D. | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Personal Development

The second edition of Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting gracefully updates what many consider the best resource of its kind. New chapters on implementation, “whole-system” strategies, and ethics are included, but in general it simply fine-tunes Block’s proven advice to match the transformations that business and society have undergone since initial publication two decades ago. “The days of long studies and expert-driven answers are passing,” the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Peter Block | Subjects: Industry Specific, Personal Development | Industry: Consulting

There are 7 aspects people must deal with when preparing and delivering presentations. An effective speaker learns to deal with all 7 aspects at the same time. Failure to pay attention to all of these aspects can result in an inneffective presentation. Failure to pay attention to too many of these can result in disaster.
1. Speaker
2. Message
3. Audience
4. Channel
5. Feedback
… [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Lenny Laskowski | Source: Presentation-Pointers.com | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

It is puzzling that we seek expert advice on improving our golf game but avoid professional advice on how we can deal with other people. We pay personal trainers remarkable fees one or more times a week to encourage us to exercise harder. We avoid, however, engaging an expert to help us learn more about ourselves and others – someone who could help us learn … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Coaching, Personal Development

If we are to learn from the experience of others, surely we have to understand their thoughts and actions in the particular situations in which they found themselves. When it comes to human action of any kind, context matters.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Experience, Learning

Productive learning often takes place in stages. First, the learner is exposed to the core concepts, and then he or she tries to apply them and finds that he or she needs to understand them better. This makes the learner more receptive, and so the process repeats itself. Most effective courses are structured this way. Periodic tests help highlight progress and areas where more work … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Learning, Training & Development