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When I was doing the hiring for AT&T’s PR department, I came to the conclusion that professional writing skills were a leading indicator of basic intelligence.

Content: Quotation | Author: Dick Martin | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Intelligence, Skills

I don’t think there’s any perfect organizational structure. But we tend, unfortunately, to perceive reorganization as a negative thing. Companies use structures as a means to an end—to coordinate activity, to capture and share information, and to get the right expertise to bear on the right problem. There’s nothing wrong with changing structure.

But there’s a nuance to it. In a fast-moving environment, structures that require … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Rita Gunther McGrath | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Information, Organizational Behavior

If there is one skill that makes you non-fungible in a business environment, it’s being able to write. There are literally thousands of people who can manipulate numbers, but in any organization there are literally three or four people who can actually write, who can convey complicated ideas.

Content: Quotation | Author: Stanley Bing | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Career, Skills

As human beings we love nothing more than being right, and […] when we are right, we are generally making someone else wrong. True humility is, at least in part, being able to see one’s own assessments as assessments, rather than believing them to be truths.

Content: Quotation | Author: Pete Hamill | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Personal Development, Personality / Behavior, Thought

There’s a reason it’s called ‘paying’ attention: it’s a substantial cost in terms of time and energy. But nothing fundamental has changed. Everyone is still amazed when you actually listen deeply to what they are saying, and respond to that rather than simply waiting them out so you can spew forth your own talking points.

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Attention, Communication

The antidote for too much knowledge is execution. Why? Execution helps to work through fear and build confidence. Knowledge will always give you enough reasons not to act. Execution is taking the next step in spite of that knowledge.

Content: Quotation | Author: Kevin Kelly | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Action, Confidence, Execution

Any one response to the universe, however powerful, becomes inappropriate with time and change. Those who become utterly dependent on one means of mastery will find themselves unable to cope with the future.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Change Management, Future, Management, Personal Development, Skills

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Life, Management, Wisdom

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult

Content: Quotation | Author: Goethe | Subjects: Action, Leadership, Management, Thought

People are afraid to compete because they prefer to pretend they could have won if they played, than to know that they played and lost.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Competition, Fear / Doubt, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Money is not wealth. Discretionary time is wealth. You can always make more money. You can’t make more time.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Career, Personal Development, Wisdom

There are 2 types of folks who make it: the lucky ones, and the persistent ones.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Career, Luck, Personal Development, Success / Failure

Deliberate practice has three key components: setting specific goals; obtaining immediate feedback; and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt | Subjects: Personal Development, Preparation, Skills

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Future, Management

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Achievement, Personal Development, Success / Failure, Wisdom

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Personal Development, Reputation

Solitude is to genius the stern friend. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from traveling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Personal Development, Thought

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Life, Personal Development, Wisdom

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Knowledge, Management, Skills, Wisdom