352 Articles found for subject: Personal Development

Looking for a quick way to give your team a productivity boost? Start by eliminating negativity.

Content: Article | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Executives who confront new challenges with old formulas often fail. The best leaders tailor their approach, recalibrating their “action orientation” to address the problem at hand, says Ryan Raffaelli. He details three action orientations and how leaders can harness them.

Content: Article | Authors: Ben Rand, Ryan Raffaelli | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Decision Making, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

A practical guide to the powerful 4S method with examples for anyone.

Content: Article | Author: Alex Miguel Meyer | Source: Better Humans | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

Section 4, a growing online platform for business education founded by Scott Galloway and working with top business professors and practitioners, distills MBA-quality courses into two- to three-week sprints in topics such as Product Positioning, Brand Strategy, Data & Analytics, Customer-Centered Innovation and more. Sprints are designed to be short, intense, and instantly applicable. They deliver the content at a fraction of the cost of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kristy Bleizeffer | Source: Poets & Quants | Subjects: Human Resources, Learning, MBA Related, Personal Development, Training & Development

We’re all flawed human beings. We all should be asking for help. Reminding yourself and your company’s leadership of this eternal truth is one of the essential tasks for anyone in—or outside—of business today. A guide.

Content: Article | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Personal Development

Failure to express your preferences in everyday situations can make you seem less likeable and even slightly less human.

Content: Article | Authors: Alixandra Barasch, Kaitlin Woolley, Peggy J. Liu | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development, Personality / Behavior

Create a compelling self-narrative based on the five pillars that influence the way we experience meaning.

Content: Article | Author: Manfred Kets de Vries | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Personal Development

We’ve found is that the most high-impact managers make a regular habit of setting aside moments of reflection, putting in the deliberate time and work it takes to gain a new perspective on their teams, their cross-functional relationships and their own effectiveness from a higher altitude.

It got us thinking — there’s certainly plenty of content on the questions managers should be asking others, whether it’s … [ Read more ]

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

At the end of the day, the only thing that actually matters is the impact our work has on our company, our customers, our colleagues, and our professional development. And the only way to stay on top of that is to hold ourselves accountable to our higher-order goals with as much enthusiasm as we have for the dopamine rush of reaching inbox zero.

The best leaders … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Brie Wolfson | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Asking questions and listening to the questions of others helps leaders make better decisions.

Content: Article | Author: Pia Lauritzen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Focusing on resources, not people, can help leaders avoid power’s worst pitfalls.

Content: Article | Author: Theodore Kinni | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

The lockdown that we’ve all just lived through created a period during which a lot of people had the opportunity to reflect on plans for a career change. But reflection alone doesn’t get people very far. Those who are mostly likely to act during this kind of period are those who actively engage in a three-part cycle of transition — one that consists of separation, liminality and reintegration. The author … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Herminia Ibarra | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Before you decide, check how the question is framed to ensure you have all the information you need and have considered all your options.

Content: Article | Author: Eric McNulty | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Decision Making, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Thought leadership is not a new topic. In fact, the term was coined by Joel Kurtzman back in 1994.

In the two-and-a-half decades since, we’ve seen the rise of YouTube experts, Instagram influencers, and the Kardashians.

But are all of those people thought leaders? Are any of them thought leaders?

To answer the same questions about yourself or the people you’re trying to build into thought leaders on … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ashley Faus | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personal Development

Five lessons in five minutes — how to build emotional connections that back up your decisions.

Content: Article | Authors: Allison Felt, Baba Shiv | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

People often wonder how startup CEOs spend their time. Sam Corcos, the co-founder and CEO of Levels, shares a little about how he spent his time for the first two years, backed up with data. The goal? For folks out there with hopes to become a startup CEO, you can get a behind-the-scenes deep dive into how you might actually spend your time on the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Sam Corcos | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

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

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

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