Judith M. Bardwick
Title: Professor Judith M. Bardwick
Full Name: Judith Marcia Bardwick
Birthdate: January 16, 1933
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Occupation: Author, Management Consultant, and Psychologist
Profile: Regarded as one of the great management thinkers of our time.
Website: https://judithmbardwick.com/
Number of Quotes: 14
A plateau is a place of apparent safety and comfort, but it is actually a place where vitality is lost and growth is replaced by routine.
Change is stressful. But the stress of change is also the energy of growth.
Fear of failure is the greatest single impediment to success in adult life.
For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.
In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.
Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.
People are motivated by the tension between comfort and risk.
Danger in the Comfort Zone (1995)
Plateauing occurs when an employee has reached a position where the likelihood of further promotion is very low.
The Plateauing Trap (1986)
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself—your strengths and your limitations—in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.
Real growth and learning occur when you step outside of your comfort zone.
Paraphrased from her concept of the comfort zone
in Danger in the Comfort Zone (1995).
The comfort zone is a behavioral state where a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a
limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk.
Central thesis of Danger in the Comfort Zone (1995).
The greatest enemy of success is the fear of failure—and the complacency of success itself.
When you’re in the comfort zone, you’re not taking risks, but you’re also not growing.
Summary of her ideas in Danger in the Comfort Zone (1995).
With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.
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