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We cannot achieve fulfillment simply by aiming for it, Aristotle taught; instead, we must cultivate traits of character (which he called virtues) that will lead us to behave automatically in a way that contributes to our success.

Aristotle also writes about vices. For every virtue there are usually two vices – one representing too much and one too little of the virtue in question. The vices … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Character, Philosophy

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

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

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subject: Experience

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

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

Willpower goes a decisive step further than motivation. It implies a commitment that comes only from a deep, personal attachment to a certain intention. Willpower springs from a conscious choice to make a concrete thing happen. This commitment to a certain end – not to doing something but to achieving something – represents the engagement of the human will.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Commitment, Motivation

Principles should not be confused with values. Principles describe how things are and how they work, whereas values state where we aim to go. If principles are the territory, then values are maps. Only when we value correct principles, do we have “a knowledge of things as they are.” Practices are helpful in formalizing how to do things, but whereas “practices are situationally specific, principles … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Stephen R. Covey | Source: ManyWorlds | Subjects: Character, Values

Integrity is the measure of the degree to which we have developed our independent will in our daily lives-how well we have implemented the goals chosen through personal leadership. Integrity is our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves.

Content: Quotation | Author: Stephen R. Covey | Source: ManyWorlds | Subjects: Character, Integrity

When you get out of bed in the morning and think about what you want to do that day, ask yourself whether you’d like others to read about it on the front page of tomorrow’s newspaper. You’ll probably do things a little differently if you keep that in mind.

Content: Quotation | Sources: 800-CEO-READ (8CR), Business 2.0 | Subject: Character

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Attitude, Motivation

To adopt O’Toole’s own categories, this is a self-help book not for the many but for the rest of us-those willing to expend intellectual and emotional discipline in planning a life to fulfill one’s potential: the true source of happiness, according to the author. O’Toole, a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute and author of more than a dozen books, confesses to having hungered in … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: James O’Toole | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Data continuously flows into the modern business, but many managers fail to effectively communicate to the troops what quarterly updates, analyses, and division reports really mean to their work.

Content: Article | Author: Roly Grimshaw | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

“These questionnaires measure character strengths and aspects of happiness. All are yours to use at no charge. For each one, you’ll immediately receive your score and see how it compares to the scores of others who have used this website.

We’ll keep a record of your scores, so that you can return later and see how far you’ve progressed. To see your earlier scores, log in … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Martin E. P. Seligman | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

The manifestation of one of the most influential modern educational theories, the 6,900 entries in this major new reference work form the touchstone of what it means to be not only just a literate American but an active citizen in our multicultural democracy.

Editor’s Note: not business-related but useful for educational purposes (we all should be continually learning, right?). Topics covered include:
1. … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Sources: Bartleby.com, Houghton Mifflin Company | Subjects: Education, Personal Development

Just as information workers surpassed physical laborers in economic importance, Pink claims, the workplace terrain is changing yet again, and power will inevitably shift to people who possess strong right brain qualities. His advocacy of “R-directed thinking” begins with a bit of neuroscience tourism to a brain lab that will be extremely familiar to those who read Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open last year, but … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Daniel Pink | Subjects: Personal Development, Trends / Analysis

People always talk about the learning curve. The hardest thing is the forgetting curve. You have to discard what you think you know. And the higher you go in management, the more difficult it is. When things are changing rapidly, you have to abandon information that is no longer useful. That takes a certain amount of courage.

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Change Management, Learning

More people have used the Internet to participate in an online group than to read news or even to buy something. Online social networks have enjoyed phenomenal growth in recent years, and every major Internet portal now offers some kind of social networking or “blogging” tool to its users. But these tools are not just recreational – they are rapidly becoming essential tools for business. … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: David Teten, Scott Allen | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Negotiating is one of the most researched and studied topics in business, law, politics, and international affairs.The five elements in the negotiating and closing process are:your negotiating approach, preparation, maneuvering for dominance and control, bargaining and closing and getting commitment. This article, geared toward media negotiations, offers a wealth of useful rules, strategic considerations, preparation advice and more.

Content: Article | Author: Charles Warner | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

As the years go by, we resign ourselves to the pessimistic view that “dreams are just dreams”. And yet, for IESE Professor Luis Huete, dreams are essential to a full life, which consists essentially of developing and mobilizing personal resources to attain inner and outer abundance. In the book “Construye tu sueño” (“Build your Dream”), Huete invites us to identify the factors that determine how … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Luis Huete | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Official Website of Malcolm X | Subjects: Achievement, Adversity

If the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren’t there more millionaires? In Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Subject: Personal Development