LEARNING

James G S Clawson and Doug Newburg
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James G S Clawson: University of Virgina, USA
Doug Newburg: University of Florida Medical School, USA

Chapter 19 in Powered by Feel:How Individuals, Teams, and Companies Excel, 2008, pp 127-133 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractMaking life a “living” place.It seems to me that most of us, deep down, want to do that, yet many if not most of us end up in jobs and organizations that squeeze the probabilities of interesting living out of us. This squeezing I guess begins with parents teaching us what's okay and what's not okay. We learn that quickly. Then, when we go to school, the okay/not-okay lessons continue and the range of acceptable behaviors narrows like the chutes leading to the branding station on a cattle ranch. At the branding station, graduation, society puts its mark on us and we are pronounced a bachelor of science or a master of business administration or a doctor of medicine. We are branded “learned.”…

Keywords: Performance; Business Performance; Leadership; Management; Human Potential; Self-Improvement; Organizational Culture; Mentoring; Social Conditioning; Business Leadership; Motivation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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