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What Role Does Exclusion Play in Hate and Violence? (Part 3)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton One of the thinking traps that people fall into is putting people into categories. This may result in assigning a derogatory label to the category, and making blanket statements about how "all people" from that category are a certain way.

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Transdisciplinary Thinking Leads to Better Decisions

Leading in Context

In the quest to understand things, we have divided up content and areas of science and our world in general into categories that we label (like biology, art, and psychology for example) and think of as separate. People study inside these realms intensely until they become experts in them.

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How to Lead When Your Team Lacks a Sense of Urgency

Let's Grow Leaders

Group them into similar categories. For example, in a particular role, you might have categories like: document accounts, respond to inquiries, and complete research for proposals. Here’s a specific example: in our business, we have a category of “Responding to prospects and customers.”. Begin with routine tasks.

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Key Traits of Challenger Brands that Allow Them to Punch Above Their Weight

Leading Blog

Challenger brands can’t spend their way to success with big ad campaigns like the category leaders. An Underdog Nightmare for the Category Leaders. Underdogs don’t succeed by trying to do what the category leaders do, but better. It was a revolutionary challenger move that turned category convention on its ear.

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Full-Spectrum Thinking

Leading Blog

F ULL-SPECTRUM THINKING is not common, and never has it been. Bob Johansen describes full-spectrum thinking as “the ability to seek patterns and clarity across gradients of possibility—outside, across, beyond, or maybe even without any boxes or categories—while resisting false certainty.”. I like that. It’s dismissive.

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How to Prepare for Performance Management Conversations

Next Level Blog

It doesn’t matter whether the conversation is in the easy and fun category or of the hard and stress-inducing variety, the questions are worth thinking through before you begin the discussion. Here they are: What Do I Want Them to Think? How Do I Want Them to Feel? How do you want them to feel at the end of the conversation?

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Why Is CliftonStrengths The Perfect Assessment Tool For You & Your Team?

Rich Gee Group

The 34 themes are divided into 4 categories: Strategic Thinking: Analytical, Context, Futuristic, Ideation, Input, Intellection, Learner, Strategic. Encourages Positive Thinking: CliftonStrengths is an optimistic assessment tool that focuses on what individuals do well rather than what they don't do well.

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