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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Challenge

Do you have what it takes to succeed in the Internet Economy? Take the Russell Reynolds Web DNA quiz to find out. Answer 12 questions and see how you compare to others who have taken the quiz. Then read on to learn more about the six characteristics that set successful Internet Executives apart (or go there directly at: Content: Online Resource | Source: Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Personal Development

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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: Personal Development

A good architect has to finish three or four successful systems before he can begin to identify those parts of his experience that are particular and not generalizable.

Corollary: You can’t generalize from a sample of one.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Mythical Man-Month | Subject: Experience

Men are not prisoners of fate, only prisoners of their own minds.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

This book received good reviews on Amazon, but for a decidedly negative review, take a look at
Content: Book | Authors: James A. Champy, Nitin Nohria | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development

People rise to the challenge when it is their challenge.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Challenge

There are only three things that are certain: God, human folly, and laughter. We cannot comprehend the first two, so we have to do the best we can with the third – laughter.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

This book is the distillation of the course that Michael Ray and Rochelle Myers taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The authors present us with points, then give us stories and examples from the world of business and underpinnings from the world of scientific and psychological research that help explain why the examples work. This is a book that presents you with tools … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Michael L. Ray | Subjects: Innovation, Personal Development

For the self-renewing person the development of his or her own potentialities and the process of self-discovery never end. It is a sad, but unarguable fact that most human beings go through their lives only partially aware of the full range of their abilities.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

The problem is arrogance doesn’t knock on the door and walk in—it sneaks in under the door. You never see it and you never feel it.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Learning

Welcome to the Virtual Communication Assistants Site. This site links a series of tutorials designed to assist individuals in various interpersonal tasks. These resource sites include:
– The Virtual Presentation Assistant
– The Virtual Meeting Assistant
– The Virtual Interviewing Assistant
– The Virtual Research Assistant
– The Virtual Statistical Assistant
– The Virtual Team Assistant

The Virtual Presentation Assistant consists of:
– Determining … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: University of Kansas Communication Studies Department | Subject: Personal Development

Content: Book | Authors: Dudley Lynch, Paul Kordis | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

Tact: the “ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development

The road to success is always under construction.

Content: Quotation | Source: Sears | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

James Waldroop and Timothy Butler, directors of the career center at Harvard Business School and authors of the book Maximum Success: Changing the 12 Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead, have identified the character traits that get in the way of success. Five listed in this article include:
1. The Impostor Syndrome (fears he/she doesn’t belong in their current position)
2. The Meritocrat (won’t … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jill Rosenfeld | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

[An expert is] someone who knows more and more about less and less.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Expertise

I tell my clients that it is absolutely imperative that they spend a few weeks each year outside their own business and actively working in the marketplace, or in a university lab, in the case of technical people. The best way for the chief executive officer to take the place of a salesman twice a year for two weeks.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Personal Development