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This article discusses the nature and the reality of managerial jobs and how managers spend their time.

The findings of the study suggest that in general, significant improvements in the use of managerial time can be obtained by addressing the following issues at work:
– the management of meetings;
– the management of paper work/desk work activities;
– delegation and supervision;
– … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Titus Oshagbemi | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Preparing for a speech – whether a keynote address, panel discussion, interview with the media, or presentation to the board of directors – can be done in five systematic steps.

Content: Article | Author: Gayle Brickman | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Personal Development

Five rules for mapping information so others can find their way.

Content: Article | Authors: Mark Fischetti, Richard Saul Wurman | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development

Confidence precedes competence.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Competence, Confidence

We all know it’s true: Managing up is as important as managing down. That’s especially true when you are starting a relationship with a new boss. HBS professor Michael Watkins discusses the importance of clearly defining goals with your superior.

Content: Article | Author: Michael Watkins | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Here’s Fast Company’s eight-point program for presentations guaranteed to keep your listeners on the edge of their seats.

Content: Article | Author: Eric Matson | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Personal Development

“Winning communicators don’t strive for perfection, they strive for connection.”

Answer these five “yes or no” questions. Go with your first reaction.

1. Do you have anxiety about giving a speech or presentation?
2. Would you rather pass on the opportunity to make a speech?
3. Do you prefer to stay in the background?
4. Are you uncomfortable in front of large groups of people?
5. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Judy Jernudd | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Personal Development

What is success to you? HBS professor Howard Stevenson offers insights from research he and HBS senior research fellow Laura Nash are conducting on the meaning of success for high achievers.

Content: Article | Author: Martha Lagace | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Content: Book | Authors: Peter Block, Peter Koestenbaum | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Content: Book | Authors: Bret Saxon, Elliot Goldman | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Our most basic choice, the one that grounds all the others, is this: Do we attend closely to the business of our choices, or do we flee from them, in arrogance, or fear, or boredom–or some combination of all three?

Content: Quotation | Sources: The Wilson Quarterly, What Does It All Mean? | Subjects: Commitment, Management

Learning has to do with integrating information into your own internal framework so you own it within your own conceptual space. That means you have to engage in some kind of action with the knowledge being transferred to you.

Content: Quotation | Source: LineZine | Subjects: Knowledge, Learning

Content: Book | Author: Larry Chambers | Subjects: Personal Development, Public Relations

We tag along as an expert networker demonstrates the art of the schmooze.

Content: Article | Authors: Diane Darling, Jeff Ousborne | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

The seductive pull of equilibrium poses a constant danger to successful established companies.

…While equilibrium endangers living systems, it often wears the disguise of an attribute. Equilibrium is concealed inside strong values or a coherent, close-knit social system, or within a company’s well-synchronized operating system (often referred to as “organizational fit”). Vision, values, and organizational fit are double-edged swords.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Challenge, Miscellaneous

Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it… This then is the basic meaning of a ‘learning organization’ – an organization that is continuously expanding its capacity to create its future.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Baldoni | Source: LC21.com | Subject: Learning

Should you comment? If so, what should you say? About what should you be cautious?

Content: Article | Authors: Jeff March, Marti Smiley Childs | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Personal Development, Public Relations

You’ve handed out stacks of business cards, called all your contacts, and mailed reams of cover letters. Guess what, pal: So has everybody else. That’s why we’ve asked the pros for networking tips and tricks that’ll help you leave the name-tag-wearing, resumé-waving hordes in the dust.

Content: Article | Authors: Alexis Offen, Mickey Butts | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Career, Personal Development | Industry: Other

Ultimately, companies are like people, in that what they forget is essential for determining what they remember.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subject: Personal Development

My experience…taught me the three critical drivers of professional success, the three elemental particles of love in business. They are knowledge, networks, and compassion. To be an impact player in business, you simply have to know more than most other people know. That means taking the power of ideas seriously, reading books voraciously, and developing a system of organizing what you’ve learned. But all of … [ Read more ]

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