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If you have technical skills without influence skills, you’re not going to go anywhere cause you can’t get anything done. If you have influence skills without technical skills, you may go places but you’ll get the wrong things done. So you really need both.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

If speed is the yin, the yang is prioritization. You can’t be fast if you don’t know what’s important.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jaleh Rezaei | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

We live in an age of polarization. Many of us may be asking ourselves how, when people disagree with or discount us, we can persuade them to rethink their positions. The author, an organizational psychologist, has spent time with a number of people who succeeded in motivating the notoriously self-confident Steve Jobs to change his mind and has analyzed the science behind their techniques. Some … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Adam Grant | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

The biggest illusion people share with me is “I started a business so I can have more free time.” That’s like saying you had a child so you could have more free time. That is dumb, right? It’s another reason people fail. My view is that if your business is your mission, if it’s truly something you love and live for, it’s an extension of you, it’s … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Tony Robbins | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Career, Entrepreneurship, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Communication is not just about what you say, it’s about the reaction it causes in the listener. Often we think delivering a message is enough without checking to see if it was actually received.

Content: Quotation | Author: Khalid Halim | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Communication, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Integral theory encourages you to look at the world through the lenses of the “It,” the “We,” and the “I.” The It refers to your tasks and your role at work: Your goals, achievements and the stuff you’re getting done. The We is about your relationships, the quality of your interactions — which too few people think about. And the I is about the attitudes … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Chris Holmberg | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

People-pleasing is one of the deepest forms of manipulation that exists. You’re essentially figuring out how to get people to like you in a way that’s disingenuous to yourself, creating distance between ‘work you’ and the person that you see yourself to be.

Content: Quotation | Author: Vanessa Tanicien | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Research shows that as people gain power, they lose the ability to judge a situation accurately, particularly with regard to how others will perceive their actions. They also lose some of their ability to empathize with people in positions of less relative power. Organizational leaders can tackle this tendency directly. While training courses for soft skills—such as providing and receiving feedback—need to become a more … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Training & Development

Make an observation, not a generalization. A colleague interrupts you at a meeting. You could say, “Hey, you’re rude,” but that’s going to be interpreted as an attack on their character. Instead, be specific and constructive: “You interrupted me in that meeting. It made me feel like I wasn’t a valuable part of the team. I’d appreciate it if you let me finish speaking next … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Liz Fosslien | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Communication, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Like any relationship, that of the manager and their report is a two-way street. Whether you’re taking on your first direct report or you’re a seasoned leader looking to sharpen your skills, there’s plenty of advice to go around when it comes to managers. But when the focus shifts to those who are being managed, many of those concrete tactics and strategies get decidedly less … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Career, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Successful people are often particularly skilled at coming up with reasons for continuing workplace behaviors that in fact no longer serve them. In What Got You Here, Marshall [Goldsmith] showed how their resistance is often rooted in what he calls the success delusion—the belief that because you’ve been successful, not only do you not need to change, you probably should not change. Because if you … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Marshall Goldsmith, Sally Helgesen | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

The mindsets of great problem solvers are just as important as the methods they employ. A mindset that encourages curiosity, embraces imperfection, rewards a dragonfly-eye view of the problem, creates new data from experiments and collective intelligence, and drives action through compelling show-and-tell storytelling creates radical new possibilities under high levels of unpredictability.

Content: Article | Authors: Charles Conn, Robert McLean | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

From finding the right analogy to tapping into FOMO, learn how to sell your ideas to potential supporters.

Content: Article | Author: Nathan Furr | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

The popularity of assessment tools designed to measure a person’s talents in dozens of competency areas indicates that both companies and employees are taking a positive approach to on-the-job feedback. […] There are two problems with companies’ excessive focus on the positive. First, not all strengths are of equal importance. What you’re good at might not be what your firm needs you to be … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Carter Cast | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

It’s important to set aside the time for critical reflection. That work hinges on a resolve to deeply introspect about where you’ve been, where you’re headed and how you can seek self-improvement, even in the midst of stormy weather.

But it’s hard to know exactly how to approach this vital work. Often, personal development and self-improvement gets lumped together under the umbrella of “self-care.” But we … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Some leaders tend to have a large circle of concern: They’re thinking about the effects of their decisions on a large group of people, now and into the future. Others think in a smaller circle: who they have to please and how to get it done. A leader’s ability to be strategic is a function of having bigger circles of moral concern. But that quality … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Annette Simmons | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ethics, Leadership, Management, Personal Development

Cultivate your network and think strategically to rise in your career.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Maxwell | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

I feel that [humility] is the best trait a person can achieve in life, because we are not born humble. On the contrary, I think we are born quite arrogant. Ego is the worst enemy. And humility is like a muscle. You have to exercise it every day. But it can make you listen to others. It gives you the power to change your mind … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Dines | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

There’s a big difference between modes of support that a mentor offer, whether it’s championing, mirroring, coaching, or advising. It’s easy to jump straight into giving advice based on our own experience, but often that’s not what your mentee needs. Maybe she just needs someone to say ‘Keep going, you’ve totally got this!’”

Content: Quotation | Author: Sally Carson | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Career, Personal Development