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Why Leaders Don’t Listen

Great Leadership By Dan

Although I have seen the words, “Embracing ambiguity,” on the list of leadership competencies for many companies worldwide, I have never met an executive who loves not knowing the answers. About the Author: Dr. Marcia Reynolds has over 30 years working with global corporations in executive coaching and leadership training.

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Instinct Can Beat Analytical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. But most of our problems are about uncertainty.

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Keep Experts on Tap, Not on Top

Harvard Business Review

Those who see the world probabilistically seem to better navigate volatile environments because they are wired to embrace uncertainty. The psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrated quite convincingly that we human beings are not the model-optimizing "rational" actors that many economists historically believed we are.