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With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, “flow,” “mind like water,” and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you’d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.

Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do’s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David Allen | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Conventional wisdom holds that self-awareness is a good thing and that it’s the job of the manager to identify weaknesses and create a plan for overcoming them. But research by Albert Bandura, the father of social learning theory, has shown that self-assurance (labeled “self-efficacy” by cognitive psychologists), not self-awareness, is the strongest predictor of a person’s ability to set high goals, to persist in the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

From my experiences in delivering over l500 speeches during the past 20 years, here is a quick guide to giving an effective and interesting presentation your very first time.

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

Fear is perhaps the greatest emotional barrier to developing greater emotional intelligence through deeper self-awareness as well as the capacity to empathize and read the people. Fear blocks people from developing and growing as human beings and as wiser and more effective leaders.

Content: Article | Author: Robert ‘Dusty’ Staub | Source: BizJournals | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

This guide by management consultant Cohen and Stanford University Graduate School of Business professor Bradford skillfully demonstrates, with numerous examples, how managers and other employees can achieve their career objectives–as well as those of their companies–by forming mutually advantageous alliances. Urging patient planning of strategies, the authors offer advice on coping with turf rivalries, handling delicate inter-level relations and tips on how to bypass rules … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Allan R. Cohen, David L. Bradford | Subject: Personal Development

People don’t have time to seek authentic experiences, so they are looking for experiences in the products they buy.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Experience, Personality / Behavior

Whether you are conducting a one-on-one interview, motivating your sales team or delivering a keynote address, your success as a leader is defined by your ability to persuade with clarity and passion.

Content: Article | Author: John Boe | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personal Development

The best companies tend to rely on the professional judgment of their people. They hire good people and take their advice. Companies that are weaker apply metrics more mechanistically. R&D’s job is to create a buffet of wonderful ideas. My job is to have good taste.

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Judgement, Management

I constantly have warned our people over the years that, as we became bigger and more successful, our primary potential enemy was ourselves, not our competitors. Getting cocky, getting complacent, thinking that the world was our oyster, disregarding our competitors, both new and old. I think humility is very important in keeping your eye on the carrot, keeping focused outwardly instead of inwardly, and knowing … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Attitude, Organizational Behavior

Edwin C. Bliss’ book was first published in 1976, and was updated in 1993. His ABCs are ‘right on’ and provide ways to better manage our precious time. By using the tools in this book, they will help improve performance and get the right things done.

Content: Article | Author: Cam Howey | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

The only thing that the passage of time achieves is to move you closer to retirement or termination. Too often, we treat experience as a noun rather than as a verb, something to accumulate (“I had an experience”) rather than something to discover (“I experienced . . .”). A nasty barrier to the buildup of experience is buried in this innocent-sounding sentence: “I have learned … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subject: Experience

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Adversity, Personal Development

We have heard it said a thousand times that “practice makes perfect.” As well-meaning as whoever told you this might have been, they were wrong. Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes consistent. Perfect practice makes perfect. Mediocre practice makes mediocrity.

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

What do Benjamin Franklin, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Thomas Edison, William Shakespeare, Osama bin Laden, and every other historical or famous person you have ever heard of have in common? Every famous or infamous person that has come to historical prominence is known for either solving or creating problems.

Remember, your friends, your family, and history itself will not remember you for the problems … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Problems / Solutions

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Achievement, Vision

If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less.

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Change Management, Personal Development

My definition of learning follows the behavioral model. That is, learning hasn’t really taken place until it’s reflected in changed behaviors, skills, and attitudes. So our approach to education and training is focused on changing the skills and behavior of employees, and our focus is not on teaching, but on learning.

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Learning, Organizational Behavior

At the root of team and organizational learning is conversational exchange – how do we accurately communicate to each other what’s going on in our minds and what’s going on in reality? The human tendency is to assess prematurely the meaning of what people are saying or not saying and why they are saying or not saying it. There is also a tendency not to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Learning, Organizational Behavior

“The quality of an organization is directly linked to the quality of conversations of the people in that organization.”

Certain people really “get it” when you have a conversation with them. You feel like they really get you at the gut level, not just at the head level. You walk away from a conversation with them feeling deeply understood and valued. Get It! people have … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Brady Wilson | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

To reap the gains and windfalls of a successful business, entrepreneurs must look to a set of attitudes they will find only within themselves.

Content: Article | Authors: Alex Rovira, Fernando Trias de Bes | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Personal Development