8 Key Steps for Effective Leadership Decision Making to Avoid Decision Disasters
Effective leadership decision making on critical decisions involves: 1) Deciding the decision criteria; 2) Weighing importance of criteria; 3) Grading your options using the criteria; 4) Checking with your head and gut; 5) Sticking to your choice.
How to Evaluate Unconscious Bias Caused by Cognitive Biases at Work
To address unconscious cognitive biases in your workplace, you need to evaluate thoroughly their impact on your own professional activities, as well as more broadly in your team and organization, and make and implement a plan to address the problem.
8 Key Steps to Prevent Failure in Implementing Decisions or in Managing Projects and...
To prevent a project or process disaster, 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.
3 Steps to an Intentional Life
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Are you getting all you want? Are you achieving all of your goals and succeeding in...
The Pro-Truth Pledge prompts truthful behavior, according to psychology studies
Traditionally, identifying truth in politics comes from mainstream media and its fact checking. A recent Gallup poll, however, showed that only 29 percent of...
When Should You Go With Your Gut in Business Relationships?
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Let’s say you’re interviewing a new applicant for a job and you feel something is off. She says all...
(Dis)Trust in Science: What Can We Do About the Scourge of Misinformation?
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At least 10 US children died and over 400 were sickened after taking homeopathic teething medicine laced...
When Truth Isn’t Truth
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“Truth isn’t truth” according to Rudy Giuliani, a statement he made on August 19th on NBC’s...
Does the Starbucks Anti-Bias Training Go Against Human Nature?
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On May 29, over 8,000 Starbucks stores across the US closed their doors for...
How to Avoid Business Disasters with Behavioral Science
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Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal led to a massive fall in the Facebook’s stock price, governments around the world...