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How Leaders Can Develop Their Skills With One Simple Habit

Tanveer Naseer

If your schedule is anything like mine, finding time to consistently devote to your own leadership development is likely quite a challenge. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have a well-rounded leadership development program that didn’t require you to add anything to your schedule?

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How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure: 5 Key Strategies for Navigating Complexity

Experience to Lead

Executives and decision-makers now operate in an increasingly complex world, where variables, competing priorities and uncertainties constantly intertwine. One way to better manage complexity and avoid impulsive errors is to gain a solid familiarity with the organizational and decision-making systems you operate in.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

Workplace culture can change rapidly with world events, and play an important role in how employees respond to and operate in times of crisis. Daniel Kahneman encompassed this philosophy perfectly when he said, “It’s easy to strive for perfection when you are never bored” (Opening credits, audiobook exclusive).

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. Is it possible to develop empathy? The not so good news is that cognitive empathy needs to be developed. A key to developing curiosity is inquiry. If you’re operating as a know-it-all, you have an underlying belief that that any new stuff really isn’t of much value. We’re blind to our blindness.

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Why Companies Are Betting Against Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.

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Why New Leaders Should Be Wary of Quick Wins

Harvard Business Review

As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. Instead, he was told that the CEO would stay until the CFO developed the capabilities to succeed him, and Greg would be allowed to resign.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.