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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

Just a few years ago, news that a CEO or senior executive was using a coach would have raised eyebrows in the boardroom. Now it is the height of corporate fashion to assign an executive coach to improve leaders’ management performance and/or overcome their personal development deficiencies.

Content: Article | Authors: Des Dearlove, Stuart Crainer | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

If you want to command respect, you need to do four things: Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do in any circumstance, the integrity to do the right thing, the character to stand up to people who don’t do the right thing and the courage to stop people who won’t do the right thing. If you can do that, you’ll command respect … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CIO Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

I think about fitting work in the same way we might think about other practices, often drawn from arts, games, or sports, like piano playing or baseball.

The first thing to ask is whether we have the right aptitudes. No aptitude, no fit. If you’re tone deaf, music is probably not for you. This kind of fit is what society needs: from a social point of … [ Read more ]

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

The image of perfect freedom neglects the fact that many attractive and enjoyable human goods require some discipline and practice. Our enjoyment of cooking or poker or baseball is amplified when we are good at them. It is hard to live a happy life if we develop no talent whatsoever. Becoming good at one thing precludes doing other things. The perfectly free life, with no … [ Read more ]

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

If you are in tune with your emotions during the important passages in your life, you’ll be more a consistently more effective leader.

Content: Article | Authors: David Dotlich, James L. Noel, Norman Walker | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

The question of democracy is often discussed on the assumption that we are obliged to choose between the rule of the modern beneficent despot, the expert, and a muddled, befogged ‘people’. If the question were as simple as that, most of our troubles would be over; we should only have to get enough Intelligence Bureaus in Washington, enough scientific management into our factories, enough specialists … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Expertise, Miscellaneous

Expect resistance to your new proposal? One powerful way to persuade others is plucked from the language of romance.

Content: Article | Author: Robert Cialdini | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

This charming, easy-to read volume explains the difference between luck, which “doesn’t last long, because it does not depend on you” and Good Luck, which “is created by each of us: that’s why it lasts forever.” In friendly, fairy tale style, the authors tell a story of two knights seeking to find a magic four-leaf clover in an enchanted forest, and along the way impart … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Alex Rovira, Fernando Trias de Bes | Subject: Personal Development

The problem with most people is that they do not know what they want, but they do know what it is that they don’t want and they keep asking not to get it – and are constantly frustrated because that is exactly what they get.

If you want to change something in your life, it is important that you use a “moving towards” strategy and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: TheWorkingManager.com | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Executive coaching is dramatically increasing in popularity. Leaders around the world are both using coached and becoming coaches. But, the understanding of what executive coaching is and how it can increases leaders’ effectiveness has not grown as fast as the application of this process.

Coaching for Leadership brings together the world’s best executive coaches to give the reader an understanding of:
– How coaching works
– … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Alyssa Freas, Laurence Lyons, Marshall Goldsmith, Robert Witherspoon | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

U.S. Senator John McCain offers an insightful look at the concept of courage.

Content: Article | Author: John McCain | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

The authors, founders of and executives at LGE Performance Systems, an executive training program based on athletic coaching programs, offer a program aimed at stressed individuals who want to find more purpose in their work and ways to better handle their overburdened relationships. Just as athletes train, play and then recover, people need to recognize their own energy levels. “Balancing stress and recovery is critical … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

I don’t know that if you follow your dreams, the money will follow.
I do know that if you follow your dreams, the money won’t matter as much.
I don’t know that if you serve others, you’ll be rewarded financially.
I do know that if you serve others, you’ll be a happier, more fulfilled person.

Content: Quotation | Source: Net Impact | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Achievement

Common wisdom for negotiations says it’s better to wait for your opponent to make the first offer. In fact, you may win by making the first offer yourself.

Content: Article | Author: Adam Galinsky | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Knowing one’s audience is the key to making the sale and closing the deal. It’s that simple, say authors Miller and Williams, executives and customer research experts at Miller-Williams Inc., with writer Hayashi. The specific nature of an idea or business opportunity is, of course, important, but more crucial is how and in what manner it is presented to the potential signer-on. By thoroughly studying … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Alden M. Hayashi, Gary A. Williams, Robert B. Miller | Subject: Personal Development

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Content: Quotation | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Experience, Mistakes

The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.

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

What’s the easiest way to get rid of emotional tension? You can do it in less than a minute. Just diminish your vision. Revise it so it’s easier to attain – or abandon it altogether. However, when you relieve emotional tension, you also compromise creative tension. We call this the structure of compromise, or the structure of mediocrity. You could explain all the mediocrity in … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: Achievement, Vision