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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Articles, books, seminars, videos, online courses…all of them provide pieces to the puzzle to assist individuals to becoming a great leader. Daniel Kahneman. If you’re operating as a know-it-all, you have an underlying belief that that any new stuff really isn’t of much value. Decipher the Leadership Code.

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The Persistence of the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." Since then, he has written over a half-dozen books and many more Harvard Business Review articles, almost all of which touch on disruption in some way. Some can, but many cannot.

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Your Judgment of Risk Is Compromised

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky provide perhaps the best theoretical framework in which to understand the phenomenon. We will pay far more for a medical operation that increases our chance of surviving from 0% to 1% than one that increases it from 10% to 11%.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

This study uses two rounds of interviewing to identify what the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes as the “inside view” and the “outside view” of the phenomenon. failure to fully embed operations in China. Uber sold its operation to Didi Chuxing. ineffective innovation strategies.

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Why New Leaders Should Be Wary of Quick Wins

Harvard Business Review

As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. HBR Staff/Clare Jackson/EyeEm/Getty Images. Yet the best way to succeed, paradoxically, is to slow things down. How to Slow Down in a High-Speed Job.

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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

On April 4 of this year, Dimon read a short article in the Wall Street Journal about a JPMorgan trader in London, Bruno Iksil, who was making massive bets that exposed the bank to high levels of risk. At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out.

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Why Companies Are Betting Against Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.