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3 Things You Need to Control to Succeed as a Leader

Leading Blog

Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for his research on behavioral economics, calls them System 1 and 2. Its cognitive processes take place mainly in the amygdala and other parts of the brain that developed early in our evolution. For example, we make bad hires if we rely on our autopilot system.

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

They cover recruiting, hiring, managing employees, motivating workers, developing talent, managing diversity, and much more. For example, Adams demonstrates how to better manage employees in a more digital and disruptive company environment by using examples from her time as the BBC’s HR director. Let’s begin.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Decipher the Leadership Code. Many people are overwhelmed when they are studying leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Daniel Kahneman.

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

They cover recruiting, hiring, managing employees, motivating workers, developing talent, managing diversity, and much more. For example, Adams demonstrates how to better manage employees in a more digital and disruptive company environment by using examples from her time as the BBC’s HR director. Let’s begin.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. Daniel Kahneman. The behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman once noted that “if you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as systematic. They must embrace a new leadership model.

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Can Being Overconfident Make You a Better Leader?

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. Yet stories like the one above about Steve Jobs made us wonder: might there be some hidden benefits to overconfidence in the context of corporate leadership? Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.

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Why New Leaders Should Be Wary of Quick Wins

Harvard Business Review

As a consequence, quick wins may soon be undone, or they may beget new leadership problems. The result: You will have more control over the pace of your transition to new leadership responsibilities and the company’s transition to its new era. The New Leader Who Starts Too Fast. How to Slow Down in a High-Speed Job.