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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

Bartleby.com, an online reference site, proclaims itself as “The preeminent publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.” Some of the many features include: an encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, quotations (Bartlett’s), English Usage (including a searchable version of Strunk & White’s “Elements of Style”), Verse Search, Fiction … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Bartleby.com | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips, Reference / Search

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Character

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done.

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Content: Book | Authors: Mark Levy, Tom Peters | Subject: Personal Development

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Commitment, Miscellaneous

Confidence is more important than competence. Competence can be bought. Confidence, never.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Competence, Confidence

Competence precedes confidence.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Competence, Confidence

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Personal Development