Are You Missing Vital Information Due to the MUM Effect?

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | July 5, 2022 |

Company cultures and top leaders often unconsciously penalize subordinates who bring them bad news. This dangerous judgment error is called the MUM effect and it creates an atmosphere of secrecy that leads successful companies to stagnate and deteriorate.

10 Steps for Strategic Planning to Defend Your Future (Videocast and Podcast)

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | June 28, 2022 |

Effective strategic planning involves: 1) Identifying potential threats and opportunities; 2) Planning how to deal with them; 3) Reserving sufficient resources to address threats and opportunities; 4) Making your plans resilient and flexible.

How to Prevent Leadership Development Failures

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | June 21, 2022 |

Organizations often fail to train newly-promoted leaders well, because experienced leaders forget about the many new skills needed for recently-promoted leaders to succeed. This problem stems from a mental blindspot known as the curse of knowledge.

How to Defeat the Empathy Gap (Video & Podcast)

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | June 14, 2022 |

Leaders need to address the emotions of employees first and foremost in order to overcome the empathy gap through emotional and social intelligence. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes how to defeat the empathy gap.

How Associations Can Improve New Member Retention

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | June 7, 2022 |

To improve new member retention, associations need to avoid dangerous judgment errors. An example is the overconfidence bias, which causes association leaders to be excessively confident about what new members want.

Your Dangerous Mistakes? Cognitive Bias in Decision Making at Work (Videocast and Podcast of the “Wise Decision Maker Show”)

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | May 31, 2022 |

Want to avoid the dangerous judgment errors that scholars in cognitive neuroscience and behavioral economics call cognitive biases in your work? This videocast and podcast will help you defeat all types of cognitive bias!

Don’t Let Others Control Your Life!

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | May 24, 2022 |
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Do you ever wonder whether those around you have too much influence over your life? If so, you may be impacted by the mere-exposure effect, which causes us to believe something is good simply because we are familiar with it.

What True Leaders Know About Emotional Intelligence

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | May 17, 2022 |
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Gain the ability to manage your emotions and understand those of others through emotional intelligence to help you truly succeed as a leader.

10 Tips to Protect Your Romantic Relationships From Disaster (Video & Podcast)

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | May 10, 2022 |

Relationships require work and maintenance, much like any other important facet of our lives. Open, respectful, and supportive attitudes towards one another from the very start will go a long way in helping you build a lasting relationship. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes 10 tips to protect your romantic relationships from disaster.

Effective Strategies to Gain Constructive Feedback (Video & Podcast)

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | May 3, 2022 |

Gathering active and passive feedback plays a vital role in improving stakeholder membership engagement. Learning to love constructive feedback ensures that leaders can fulfill stakeholder expectations appropriately. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes effective strategies to gain constructive feedback.

8 Key Steps to Prevent Failure in Implementing Decisions or in Managing Projects and Processes

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | April 26, 2022 |

To prevent failure in implementing decisions, or in managing projects or processes, imagine that it completely failed. Then, brainstorm all plausible reasons for failure, and generate solutions to these potential problems. Integrate these solutions into your project or process.

To maximize project or process success, envision that it succeeded spectacularly. Brainstorm likely reasons for such success, and generate strategies that would lead to such success. Integrate these strategies into your project or process.

Here’s Why Your Gut Instinct Is Wrong At Work – And How To Know When It Isn’t

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | April 19, 2022 |
Your Gut Instinct Is Wrong At Work

Let’s say you’re interviewing a new applicant for a job and you feel something is off. You can’t quite put your finger on it, but you’re a bit uncomfortable with this person. She says all the right things, her resume is great, she’d be a perfect hire for this job – except your gut tells…

Google’s Myth of Losing Social Capital in Hybrid Work

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | April 12, 2022 |

Companies can effectively retain social capital in the hybrid and remote work environment by applying hybrid work best practices such as the virtual watercooler and virtual coworking.

Effective Storytelling to Reinforce Stakeholder Rapport

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | April 5, 2022 |

Reinforce your emotional rapport with stakeholders by using storytelling techniques that have the power to not only inspire and entertain, but also educate and engage.

How to Defeat the Empathy Gap

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | March 29, 2022 |

Financial incentives are not effective motivators after a salary sufficient for a middle-class lifestyle. Leaders need to address the emotions of employees first and foremost and thus overcome the empathy gap through emotional and social intelligence.

Effective Strategies to Gain Constructive Feedback

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | March 22, 2022 |

Gathering active and passive feedback plays a vital role in improving stakeholder membership engagement. Learning to love constructive feedback ensures leaders can fulfill stakeholder expectations appropriately.

10 Tips to Protect Your Romantic Relationships From Disaster

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | March 15, 2022 |

Relationships require work and maintenance, much like any other important facet of our lives. Open, respectful, and supportive attitudes towards one another from the very start will go a long way in helping you build a lasting relationship.

How Confirmation Bias Reduces Business Profits (Video & Podcast)

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | March 8, 2022 |

The confirmation bias causes leaders to look for information that confirms their beliefs and reject information that does not. To overcome this dangerous cognitive bias, leaders should test decisions by trying to prove themselves wrong. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes how confirmation bias reduces business profits.

Say Hello to the CHO (Video & Podcast)

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | March 1, 2022 |

The pandemic has taken a toll on employees’ mental and physical health, so many organizations have started hiring a Chief Health Officer to oversee the prioritization of health in all policies. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes the new role of a CHO.

How to Future-Proof Your Leadership (Video & Podcast)

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | February 22, 2022 |

Future-proofing allows organizations to plan countermeasures and allocate resources for possible problems ahead of time, helping leaders avoid cognitive biases. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes how to future-proof your leadership.

Burnout Recovery in the Hybrid and Remote Future of Work (Video & Podcast)

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | February 15, 2022 |

The abrupt transition to remote work in the pandemic has caused employee burnout. Leaders must set clear work boundaries and expectations, and adopt best practices for hybrid and remote work, to facilitate burnout recovery and protection. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes burnout recovery in the hybrid and remote future of work.

How Confirmation Bias Reduces Business Profits

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | February 8, 2022 |

The confirmation bias causes leaders to look for information that confirms their beliefs, and rejecting information that does not. To overcome this dangerous cognitive bias, leaders should test decisions by trying to prove themselves wrong.
The confirmation bias causes leaders to look for information that confirms their beliefs, and rejecting information that does not. To overcome this dangerous cognitive bias, leaders should test decisions by trying to prove themselves wrong.

Effective Strategies for a Hybrid and Remote Work Culture (Video & Podcast)

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | February 1, 2022 |

A common challenge for building a strong hybrid and remote work culture are tensions around differences in time spent in the office. To address this, leaders must create a work culture of “Excellence From Anywhere” that focuses on deliverables rather than where you work. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes the most effective strategies for a hybrid and remote work culture.

Omicron Surge Reveals Leaders Unprepared for the Future of Work (Video & Podcast)

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | January 25, 2022 |

The lack of action in advance of the Omicron surge points towards a lack of vision in leadership. Leaders must fight against cognitive biases and adopt best practices to avoid disasters in the future of work. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes how Omicron reveals that leaders are unprepared for the future of work.

Burnout Recovery in the Hybrid and Remote Future of Work

By Dr. Gleb Tsipursky | January 18, 2022 |

The abrupt transition to remote work in the pandemic has caused employee burnout. Leaders must set clear work boundaries and expectations, and adopt best practices for hybrid and remote work, to facilitate burnout recovery and protection. 

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