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• Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Leadership, Emotional, Connections

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• I am impressed and distressed at how passive hierarchical organizations make people. There's often a lot of overt activity, but it's not going anywhere, it's game-playing. It's play-acting at work.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Play, Organization, Games

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• When people in organizations feel too secure, it's because there aren't any significant outcomes as a result of what they do. Whatever you do, nothing much different happens. This also means there are no important pay-offs if you risk by innovating. As there are no rewards for taking risks, then there's no sense of push in that institution's culture.

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  Mean, Organization, People

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• The best worst example of making people feel unappreciated today lies in the casualness, indeed indifference with regard to massive lay-offs even when there isn't a financial crisis. That is a message to employees that they are expendable, interchangeable, easily dismissed and replaced, often by younger, less experienced and cheaper employees. The essential message being conveyed to people is, You are worthless. What an incredibly dumb thing that is for management to say!

  Judith M Bardwick

  Lying, People, Dumb

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

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  Challenges, Gains, Tasks

  Judith M. Bardwick (1988). “The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma”, Bantam

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• For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

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  Self Esteem, Eggs, Workaholic

  Judith M. Bardwick (1988). “The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma”, Bantam

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• I think the characteristics of really effective leaders when people are frightened and depressed are the same qualities that leaders need when people are optimistic. The difference is when people are frightened the need for these few qualities becomes much stronger because frightened people are desperate to have someone they can trust and believe in and who seems to be able to create a better future.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Believe, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Women's self didn't die; it had never been born. And when women insisted on their right to have a self, they weren't understood even by their husbands who cried, Haven't I given you enough? And by their parents who joined the crowd who deemed them selfish and responsible for all the problems in their marriage. I remember it all too well.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Husband, Selfish, Parent

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and nurture that identity by embracing inter-dependence.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Taken, Feelings, Identity

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• The Psychological Recession is the cluster of feelings that the present is really scary and the future will likely be worse. It comes from the sense you have no control over what's happening to you and you don't see a way to get your life back under control. It's the feeling that life is unfair; you paid your dues, you worked hard, and you ended up naked and vulnerable. There is no comfort to be found in the dismissal of the Psychological Recession as being just an idea; it is a real phenomenon with real consequences, all of them bad.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Real, Scary, Feelings

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The sense of loss of control over what happens to you at work (and thus in your life is vital). This further involves a sense of fairness as in, I did my part and look where it got me! "The deal," the contract between employee and employer has eroded and been replaced with unilateral power by the organization over the employee.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Loss, Fairness, Employee

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There are still many women - and their spouses and children - who view a reflected self - I'm Mrs. Smith, not Mary Smith - as psychologically healthy. Those people are not motivated to change. But it is really dangerous to live through others'. What ever your circumstances, it is not a good idea to be wholly dependent on responses from others to like, respect or love yourself. Your children will grow up and start their own families; the divorce rate has remained at 50 percent for decades.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Children, Growing Up, Love You

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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