Posts Tagged ‘Leadership Development’
8 Powerful Questions You Need to Ask Before Stakeholder Engagement
Asking the 8 Powerful Questions during a pre-engagement stakeholder assessment will lead to better engagement and stronger relationships with your stakeholders.
Read MoreWhy You Should Hire Women Over Men, According to Science
If you care about your bottom line, hire women over men. Due to gender discrimination, women had to work harder to get the same career position as men, and you will on average get a better worker if you hire a woman.
Read MoreThis Valentine’s Day, Men and Women Should Make Different Buying Decisions
When it comes to shopping, men tend to take more risks, while women prefer to take their time to get the best possible deal. Both genders are prone to mistakes. However, you can train your mind to make the wisest shopping decisions this Valentine’s Day.
Read MoreHow to Avoid Losing
Our feelings drive us to avoid short-term losses, which often results in us failing to take worthwhile risks and actually losing more in the long term. This problem comes from a dangerous judgment error called loss aversion.
Read MoreHow Normalcy Bias Led Boeing to Crash Into Disaster
Our brains cause us to drastically underestimate both the likelihood of a disaster occurring and the impact if it does. To address this dangerous judgment error known as the normalcy bias, we need to go far beyond our intuitions in planning for catastrophes.
Read MoreInterview with Paul Powers, CEO of Physna (Videocast and Podcast of the “Wise Decision Maker Show”)
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky interviews Paul Powers, CEO of Physna. Paul is the founder of multiple successful tech-focused enterprises and a member of the prestigious Forbes 30 under 30.
Read MoreWise Decision Maker Movement Manifesto (Videocast and Podcast of the “Wise Decision Maker Show”)
The choice that feels most comfortable to your gut is often the worst decision for your bottom line. To be a truly wise decision maker, you have to adopt counterintuitive, uncomfortable, but highly profitable techniques to avoid business disasters by making the best decisions. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes the Wise Decision Maker Movement Manifesto.
Read MoreHow to Deal With Colleagues in Denial
To get colleagues in denial to believe the truth, use EGRIP: 1) discover their emotions; 2) then their goals; 3) build up rapport; 4) provide info to change their mind; 5) offer positive reinforcement for them updating their beliefs.
Read MoreWhy Your Negotiations Are Doomed (And How to Rescue Them)
We intuitively overestimate how well others read us and how well we read others in negotiations, a dangerous judgment error called illusion of transparency. This mental blindspot leads to disastrous results in negotiations and other important communications.
Read MoreYour SWOT Analysis is Broken (Here’s How You Can Fix It)
Cognitive biases lead to typical business strategic analyses such as SWOT giving a false sense of comfort and security. The result? Appalling oversights that ruin profitable businesses and bring down high-flying careers.
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