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When people ask me how to set priorities, I ask them a question: At what level do you want to have this conversation? Each of us operates on many different levels at all times. We each have a runway that holds all of the little things that consume our time. At 10,000 feet are the projects. At 20,000 feet, people are deciding on their roles … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David Allen | Subject: Personal Development

Personal aspirations collide with firm realities; conflicts rage among a person’s competing interests. Outstanding professionals-stars-are inherently ambitious and restless, creating a certain amount of unavoidable turmoil for themselves and their colleagues.

Editor’s Note: I read a lot of so-called “work-life balance” articles and frankly, most of them are useless. I found this one different – very insightful and a good read (though a bit long). … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jay W. Lorsch, Thomas J. Tierney | Sources: Bain & Company, Consulting to Management | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Building an impressive resume is a lot easier than building a fulfilling life because life is a lot more complicated. It’s not a ladder at all, but rather a continuum with confusing twists and turns. Being smart helps; being wise, thoughtful, and disciplined is an absolute necessity. We’ve seen stars succeed at life, and we’ve seen stars fail life miserably, despite professional success.Those that succeed … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Personal Development, Success / Failure

Until you’ve explicitly defined your life’s goals and aspirations, you can’t really know what tradeoffs you’re willing to make to reach them.

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Ambition, Personal Development

Honest feedback is a valuable-albeit often painful-gift. Seeking it out is not a natural act. We all want to protect ourselves, to solicit only those perspectives that reinforce our positive self-image.To hear what we agree with and discard the rest. We rationalize this behavior in a million different ways, from discrediting the source of a disagreeable perspective (“What do they really know?”) to “accidentally” forgetting … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subject: Personal Development

What distinguishes the men and women who succeed from those who fail is the efficacy of their actions, not the spaciousness of their hopes. If they believe their lives are out of alignment with their capabilities, goals, and needs, they make choices and take actions to correct the situation.

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Personal Development, Success / Failure

The real work of critical inquiry is to examine what we think we know in order to learn about what we do not know. We must question our givens and opinions. For it is far easier to label than to understand, and intellectual laziness undermines our studies with the deadly inversion of the scientific method: “I’ll believe it when I see it!” becomes “I’ll see … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: The Key Reporter (Phi Beta Kappa) | Subjects: Personal Development, Thought

It takes a strong stomach to listen to how other people see you.

Content: Article | Author: Tony Schwartz | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

The key to great leadership is to recognize the particular motivations within yourself and develop the skills that are compatible with them. It is equally important to acknowledge that there are skills you are not likely to master.

Content: Quotation | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Content: Quotation | Source: ThinkArete.com | Subjects: Attitude, Success / Failure

David Allen, one of the world’s most influential thinkers on personal productivity, offers his unique advice on how to keep up the pace — without wearing yourself down.

Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Presume/assume. Complement/compliment. All right, already. If you hesitate before choosing the correct word to use in this list, you’re not alone. And judging by most websites and instruction manuals, you have lots and lots of company.

Content: Article | Author: Crawford Kilian | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

Men ask for what they want twice as often as women do and initiate negotiation four times more, report economist Linda Babcock and writer Sara Laschever in the footnoted but engaging Women Don’t Ask. With vivid research examples drawn from cradle, classroom and playground, the authors detail culture as the culprit in discouraging women from negotiating on their own behalf.
Men, socialized in a “scrappier … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever | Subjects: Personal Development, Women in Business

Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the right answers.

Content: Quotation | Source: ExecuNet.com | Subjects: Personal Development, Wisdom

I’ve learned that good performance and true job satisfaction come from exceeding what I expect of myself, not just what others expect of me. The key to job performance is first to realize that as an employee, I have many customers who expect me to deliver a quality service. And just as every great company works day and night to serve its customers, I must … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

How many companies, or divisions, or departments, have clear visions of where they’re going? Going back to basics is the New Year’s advice for managers in this article. The Korean author draws inspiration from his seven-year-old son to offer six lessons that managers would do well to apply now. Applying his son’s world view, the author reminds managers of the importance of setting clear goals, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Thomas Shin | Sources: Bain & Company, The Korea Herald | Subject: Personal Development

It has become clear that leaders of leaders must, for themselves, as individuals, create a platform upon which they build their own identity, their own operating principles and their own set of beliefs and rules to guide their lives.

Content: Article | Author: Herb Rubenstein | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.

Content: Quotation | Source: Abraham.com | Subject: Personal Development

Not sure how to precisely gauge what every number in that financial statement represents? There’s no need to be insecure, according to Derrick Niederman and David Boyum. Numbers are merely a way to communicate and analyze a quantitative situation, and this volume provides guidelines to give you full comprehension and assurance. The book presents a series of pithy essays on various numerical analytical situations such … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: David Boyum, Derrick Niederman | Subjects: Finance, Personal Development

Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist and clinical researcher, has been studying optimists and pessimists for 25 years. Pessimists believe that bad events are their fault, will last a long time, and undermine everything. They feel helpless and may sink into depression, which is epidemic today, especially among youths. Optimists, on the other hand, believe that defeat is a temporary setback or a challenge–it doesn’t knock … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Martin Seligman | Subjects: Career, Personal Development