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Serendipity and a Serving of Humble Pie

Lead Change Blog

However, making time available to reflect and imagine increases the odds of creativity and innovation occurring. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman nailed it when he observed it was incredibly difficult for us to see our own biases. How could I have been so unseeing?

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12 Reads for 2012

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Perhaps 2011’s greatest text on organizational creativity and innovation. Owens outlines the six types of constraints innovators face and how to remove them in your organization. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Creative People Must Be Stopped by David Owens. Adapt by Tim Harford.

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Do We Hold Algorithms To Higher Standards Than Humans?

The Horizons Tracker

In Noise , Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, and Olivier Sibony highlight the many ways in which human decision-making is inherently “noisy” Noise can loosely be defined as what ensures that two judgments that should be identical are not. In other words, there are some things that are just not really possible to know.

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In April, we begin our 15th year of the First Friday Book Synopsis – with Gary Hamel, What Matters Now & Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here were our first two book choices: • The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters (Alfred A. On April 3, 1998, Karl Krayer and I presented our first two books at the first ever First Friday Book Synopsis. Knopf, 1997) – synopsis presented by Randy Mayeux. • The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every [.].

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Marcia Reynolds: Part 1 of a second interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

She understands organizational cultures, what blocks communication and innovation, and what is needed to bring people together for better results. She has coached leaders, delivered leadership, coaching and emotional intelligence programs, and spoken at conferences for […].

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Serial Innovators: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Serial Innovators: Firms That Change the World Claudio Feser John Wiley & Sons (2012) How and why continuous innovation and adaptation can help an organization “live” longer What we have here is a “hybrid” narrative that develops on two separate but interdependent levels: a fictional account that focuses on Carl Berger (CEO of American Health [.]. (..)

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How Can We Rid Biases From Facial Recognition?

The Horizons Tracker

As Daniel Kahneman explains in Thinking Fast and Slow , we often make snap judgments when we first meet people, with these judgments driven in large part by the various biases and heuristics that allow us to shortcut our decision-making.

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