244 Posts found for Source: ChangeThis

How does responsibility constrain you? The worst thing is that it allows you not to focus on real work. Just as the most dangerous forms of procrastination are those that seem like work, the danger of responsibilities is not just that they can consume a whole day, but that they can do it without setting off the kind of alarms you’d set off if you … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Productivity / Work Tips, Work

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

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

Few companies or institutions have addressed the root cause of unsustainability-our addiction to consumption. Instead, the prevailing mindset creates technological fixes, such as eco-efficiency. This is a classic case of shifting the burden, or focusing on the symptoms rather than attacking the problem at the roots. The underlying condition often reasserts itself in even more confounding ways, and, as a result, our capacity to change … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Possibility is only a word about bringing forth out of nothingness something we desire to become present, but possibility may be the most powerful word in our language because it enables us to visualize and strive for a future that is not available to us in the present. Possibility is like a time warp, allowing one to escape from the limits our past into an … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Ability, Future

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Future, Life

The focus of this e-book is management and leadership; it contains nine essays based on conversations with nine talented business authors and experts. Each author has thoroughly researched his or her topic and offers perspectives that are intellectually stimulating, helpful, and actionable.

Contents include:
1 Go Deep Fast with Keith Ferrazzi
2 Organic Leadership with Peter Han
3 HOT Teams and Getting in the Mood … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Lisa Haneberg | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Leadership, Management

Most claims of originality are testimony to ignorance and most claims of magic are testimony to hubris.

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Creativity, Thought

Dr. Robert Atkins made a living and created a cultural phenomenon teaching people to reduce
their intake of carbs. My advice counters Dr Atkins; I teach teams to indulge, even delight in their CARB intake. CARB is an acrostic representing the four major dimensions ultimately responsible for a team’s effectiveness:
– Commitment to the team and each other
– Alignment and goal agreement
– Relationships among … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Kevin Eikenberry | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Tom Peters offers a list of not-always-obvious tips that reminds us that every relationship is a sales relationship.

Content: Article | Author: Tom Peters | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Marketing / Sales

This manifesto helps companies of all sizes understand and implement the necessary level of security. The 25 tips cover everything from physical security to SPAM.

Content: Article | Author: Ravi Char | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Risk Management | Industry: Information Technology

What makes people great at small talk? However quickly they can transcend the meaningless chitchat about the weather and what company they work for and engage their conversation partners in discussions about stuff that really matters – like their favorite hobbies, their troublesome teenage children, their frustrations at work, their family relationships that really put a strain on them. Only when you talk with someone … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Sources: 800-CEO-READ (8CR), ChangeThis | Subjects: Communication, Personal Development

Don’t cross the line between enough and too much accountability. To what degree are we able to be accountable? Don’t have people accountable for things not under their control or purview as this comes across as unfair. Our managers ask for the impossible and we complain – that’s normal but not optimal. Measure the right things and draw the line between enough and too much … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Sources: 800-CEO-READ (8CR), ChangeThis | Subjects: Accountability, Management

Did you vote your boss into the corner office? If not, perhaps your boss is a dictator. Chetan Dhruve explains why bosses become dictators.

Editor’s Note: I had some real issues with this manifesto, but the point of ChangeThis is to offer thought-provoking, even controversial, papers so I have added it – read for yourself and decide…

Content: Article | Author: Chetan Dhruve | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

In this manifesto, clinical psychologist John Gartner hypothesizes that “American entrepreneurs are largely hypomanic.” Where mania is a severe illness, hypomania is not, in and of itself, an illness. It is a temperament characterized by an elevated mood state. And it is largely responsible for entrepreneurial success.

Editor’s Note: this is really an interesting article, and not just for those interested in psychology or entrepreneurship. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: John Gartner | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, International

Competency in technical skills is necessary to succeed in this world but they are not sufficient to thrive. The question is what can one do differently so that he or she can distinguish and move above the commodity crowd? The goal of this manifesto is to provide 25 ways to do just that.

Content: Article | Author: Rajesh Setty | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

People today are raised to be niche thinkers. We’re all specialists in particular subject matters. We need to return to thinking more broadly to generate big ideas.

Content: Article | Author: Steve Hardy | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Today’s virtual teams have yet to realize their full potential. They could learn a lot from Mother Nature’s teams.

Content: Article | Authors: Ken Thompson, Robin Good | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Vastly superior team member intelligence, perhaps surprisingly, does not actually make a significant difference in how successful a team can be.

Since bioteaming is based on a distributed intelligence model, what really counts is the ability for the team to use its intellectual capabilities in a collective, collaborative and cooperative fashion. So while bioteams CAN easily accommodate highly intelligent team members, they do not generally require … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Teamwork

Nothing substitutes depth of analysis and there’s proven value in the methodical and incremental process of specialization – it’s what education, career paths, scientific research, and technological innovation are built on – but generalism is the hidden talent, the missing link. With so much complex information, that is fragmented in so many ways and developing faster and faster, it is increasingly important to have generalists … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Skills, Thought

ileen Shapiro thinks that betting is a part of everyday life. Check out her four tests (and one proxy) for action-based leadership.

Content: Article | Author: Eileen Shapiro | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Leadership