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Many of the things young, ambitious professionals do to impress their managers actually just irritate them. Here we present the missteps that irk senior executives the most — so you can avoid them.

Content: Article | Authors: Alex Lash, Constance Loizos, William Speed Weed | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Behavioral economists seek to explain why we so often make financial choices that are, to put it bluntly, really damn stupid.

Content: Article | Author: Gary Belsky | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development | Industry: Investing

Ultimately, e-learning will be most effective when it no longer feels like learning — when it’s simply a natural part of how people work: Today, people say, ‘I’m working,’ and what they’re doing is quickly answering emails and voice mails. They don’t say, ‘I’ve got the next two hours slotted for email.’ If you do things in small chunks, they become just another part of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Learning, Training & Development

As today’s organizations become more and more lean, people in business are gaining a greater appreciation for the differences between a manager’s style of thinking and a leader’s style of thinking. If you’re curious about how much you think like a leader versus thinking like a manager, answer these fifteen True or False questions.

Content: Article | Author: A. J. Schuler | Source: ManagerWise | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

There’s been a lot of discussion here and elsewhere about building good PowerPoint presentations. These discussions miss the point. The difference between a good presentation and a lousy one has nothing to do with slides.

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Content: Article | Author: Michael Fischler | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

The introduction is over. The lights have dimmed. All eyes turn toward the hotshot speaker — you! If you’re going to knock them out, you’d better know the new rules for making a pitch.

Content: Article | Author: Todd Balf | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personal Development

The only way on earth to influence… [someone] is to talk about what he [she] wants and show him [her] how to get it.

Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Personal Development, Persuasion

The problem with most agreements is that they are created as protection against non-performance rather than as roadmaps to success, says mediator and consultant Levine. In this book, Levine describes how to design “agreements for results” and applies his design principles to thirty model agreements covering business, professional and personal situations.

“The Book of Agreement contains all the models you’ll ever need to protect questionable … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Stewart Levine | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Dr. Robert Buckman is a cancer specialist who teaches doctors — as well as executives at IBM, Andersen Consulting, and Upjohn — how to break bad news: “You can’t let emotions interfere with your message.”

Content: Article | Author: Curtis Sittenfeld | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

The failure to listen and ask questions could be easily solved by posing three extraordinarily simple questions, yet these frequently go unasked. They are: What do you think? How do you feel? What can I/we do? These must be the three easiest questions in the world, yet only too often managers turn themselves inside out trying to ‘second-guess’ their staff, either ‘telling’ them without consultation … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Emerald Now | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Content: Quotation | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

There are six critical areas of personal development based on timeless principles. The distance we need to grow along each leadership dimension will differ, but defining and continually growing along each of these paths is the way of the leader.

Content: Article | Author: Jim Clemmer | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

When you are pitching your proposal to VCs, tell them an emotional story, says Nick Morgan. And put away the PowerPoint!

Content: Article | Author: Sean Silverthorne | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Personal Development

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Personal Development

How to give a speech your audience will remember.

Content: Article | Author: Jeff Ousborne | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Personal Development

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Abraham Group | Subjects: Achievement, Life

The 20 tech-savviest business schools. 49 straight-to-the-point executive-ed courses. 25 books, gurus, conferences, journals, and corporate training programs that get it — and will make sure that you do too.

Content: Article | Authors: Deirdre Lanning, Stephanie Clifford | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

There are two standard schools of advice on how to make decisions under pressure: Use your head, or go with your gut. A third option-the experiential approach-combines the best of the rational and the intuitive.

Content: Article | Authors: Gary Klein, Karl E. Weick | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Susan Scott believes that interpersonal difficulties–at work and at home–are a direct result of our inability to communicate well. Fierce Conversations is based on principles from her international consulting practice, in which she teaches executives how to conduct such exchanges more dynamically and ultimately more effectively, thereby improving the relationships they enjoy with their various dialogue partners “one conversation at a time.” Using identifiable anecdotes … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Susan Scott | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

You have to understand the doctrine to know when to break the rules.

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