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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Content: Quotation | Source: Zaadz | Subjects: Personal Development, Power / Authority

Genis Z Laborde takes an unconventional view of communication and negotiation. The road to mastery of communication begins with knowing what you want and to achieve this you need to possess sensory acuity, flexibility and congruence skills. The book highlights examples that will help you to develop these skills.

Laborde progresses the debate on influencing with integrity versus manipulation through teaching the reader key points such … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Genie Z. Laborde | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is “flow,” an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding–an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

The youngest partner in Deloitte Consulting’s history and founder of the consulting company Ferrazzi Greenlight, the author quickly aims in this useful volume to distinguish his networking techniques from generic handshakes and business cards tossed like confetti. At conferences, Ferrazzi practices what he calls the “deep bump” – a “fast and meaningful” slice of intimacy that reveals his uniqueness to interlocutors and quickly forges the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

We often fail to make a distinction about two kinds of learning. The first kind of learning, which is far more common and more easily achieved, is to deepen our knowledge within an existing mental model or discipline. The second kind of learning is focused on new mental models and on shifting from one to another. It is does not deepen knowledge in a specific … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: BetterManagement.com | Subjects: Learning, Thought

It damages your reputation, your company, and the deal if you make empty threats in negotiation. In this article, HBS professor Deepak Malhotra explains six steps for powerful follow-through.

Content: Article | Author: Deepak Malhotra | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Negotiation, Personal Development

For it is character through which leadership is exercised, it is character that sets the example and is imitated in turn…The more successfully tomorrow’s manager does his work, the greater will be the integrity required of him…No matter what a man’s general education or his adult education for management, what will be decisive above all, in the future even more than in the past, is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Graziadio Business Report | Subjects: Character, Leadership

High emotion contributes to great opera. It does not, however, serve us well when making judgments about others. This is the argument advanced in “Feeling and Believing: The Influence of Emotion on Trust,” a new paper by Maurice E. Schweitzer, Wharton professor of operations and information management, and PhD student Jennifer Dunn. The two researchers show how incidental emotions — emotions from one situation that … [ Read more ]

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

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. This means that the potentially-integratable-techno-economic advantages accruing to society from the myriad specializations are not comprehended integratively and therefore are not realized, or they … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Global Province | Subjects: Learning, Miscellaneous

Never confuse talking and communicating. A little self-examination about what you say – and how you say it – can mean the difference between a listener tuning you out and hanging on your every word.

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

What Strunk and White’s Elements of Style is to clarity of exposition, Professor Tufte’s Visual Display is to the presentation of complex data – but with niftily illustrative charts, graphs, and pictures. [s+b annotation]

Content: Book | Author: Edward Tufte | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

If you lead a largely unexamined life, you will eventually hit a wall. Some barriers can be invisible until you smack into them. The key, then, is to investigate the wall inside yourself, so you can go beyond it. The only way to do that is to ask yourself painful questions…

Content: Quotation | Source: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins | Subjects: Learning, Life

In this brief but significant book, the authors, a grandfather-grandson team, explore how using positive psychology in everyday interactions can dramatically change our lives. Clifton (coauthor of Now, Discover Your Strengths) and Rath suggest that we all have a bucket within us that needs to be filled with positive experiences, such as recognition or praise. When we’re negative toward others, we use a dipper to … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D., Tom Rath | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Dull, verbose, evasive language that disguises empty-headed clichés with jargon-drenched hype is pilloried in this diverting indictment of everyday business-speak. The authors are consultants, and their familiarity with the subject, enhanced through their side job peddling “Bullfighter” anti-jargon software, gives their irreverent critique a funny, knowing edge. Besides ridiculing some ripe samples of corporate pseudo-communication, they offer advice on the art of “persuasion” in every … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway, Jon Warshawsky | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Zaadz | Subjects: Commitment, Success / Failure

Most people focus on their weaknesses, not necessarily because they’re puritanical, but really because they’re optimistic. They are naively well-intentioned. I think the basic assumption that we’re challenging…is that anyone can learn to be anything they want to be. What we can help people …to know, is that you can’t be anything you want to be. We can help people to know that there’s a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Experience is not so much what happens to you as what you make of what happens to you.

Content: Quotation | Source: Accenture | Subject: Experience

While competency frameworks, used considerately, can have an important role to play, they are no more than a map that can be used to explore and navigate the concepts of leadership and management. Like all maps, however, they only represent a fragment of the complexity of the terrain and over-dependency will fail to engage with the real problems of leading in complex and changing environments. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Competence, Leadership

For over a dozen years, Carnegie Mellon University instructor and corporate consultant Robert Kelley has studied the difference between superior workplace performers and their average peers. After determining that such stars are made, not born, he identified the game plan many use to secure better jobs, higher pay, and top career opportunities. How to Be a Star at Work: Nine Breakthrough Strategies You Need to … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Robert Kelley | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

You cannot create against a yielding medium. Let me have something finite, definite. My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint, diminishes strength.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Challenge, Innovation