BUS 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Daniel Goleman, Quaker Oats Company, Oral-B
16 Oct 2016
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Find your strength and know what you should not perform: concentrate on strengths, improve your strengths, discover where your intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance and overcome it. Taking pride in self ignorance is self defeating, acquire new skills. Don"t waste time improving areas that you have low competence, instead improve your first-rate performance. Some people are readers (writes well when given time to prepare) while others are listeners (makes good speeches such as senator) Some learn from writing, others learn from doing. Values of yourself need to fit values of organization. Learn where to not belong, reject opportunities that you cannot work with. Goals should be hard to achieve, meaningful and have a visible end. Take responsibility in communication, ask questions and help. People take for granted that organizations outlive workers and most people stay put. Rosabeth moss kanter hbr innovation: the classic traps. Each wave of enthusiasm has encountered similar dilemmas.
