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4 Steps to Make Decisions on the Fly

Lead Change Blog

Daniel Kahneman defined these two ways of thinking in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow. Kahneman describes the fast-thinking experiencing self and a slow-thinking remembered-thinking self, combined in the four-step process below.

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Decision-Making for Leaders: Beyond Pros and Cons

Leadership Freak

Daniel Kahneman You weigh options based on the decision you’ve already made, while pretending to be open minded. “You believe in the conclusion, and then you create supporting arguments.” The pros and cons… Continue reading →

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3 Ways to Trust Yourself

Leadership Freak

Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman teaches you can’t trust yourself. “… we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.” Learn to not trust yourself. Trusting yourself… Continue reading →

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4 Reasons We Make Dumb Decisions and 7 Ways to Make Smart Decisions

Leadership Freak

Daniel Kahneman identified nearly 40 cognitive biases in Thinking, Fast and Slow. Our ability to develop solutions that don’t work is only exceeded by our capacity to misjudge. All lead to bad decisions.… … Continue reading →

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10 Books You Should Read This Summer

Leading Blog

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Their goal in writing the book is “to start conversations, not end them, and to provide guidance and frameworks to help refine your thinking and strategies on the aspects of leadership that matter most.”. Wherever there is judgment, there is noise.

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Thinking Fast and Slow

Kevin Eikenberry

Today’s Resource Recommendation is Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman What do you get when a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology decides to put his thinking and work into one book? You get a book listed by The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, [.].

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Daniel Kahneman on Expert Intuition

Leadership Freak

The challenge of intuition is you think it’s right before it’s examined. When you have an intuition, you don’t have other intuitions. You have confidence. The danger of going with your gut is… Continue reading →

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