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Why Leaders Don’t Listen

Great Leadership By Dan

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explains in his book, Thinking Fast and Slow , we don’t embrace ambiguity because of “…our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in.” Listen so you get good ideas to build on.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. Is it possible to develop empathy? The not so good news is that cognitive empathy needs to be developed. Letitia, a senior leader at a global insurance company that I worked with, was adamant that her leadership team cultivate the trait of being open. A key to developing curiosity is inquiry.

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The Planning Fallacy and the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

While $300 million might sound like a ridiculously large number to small business owners or entrepreneurs, leaders in many global giants consider the amount a drop in the bucket. Do we need to increase focus on acquisition as a growth strategy, at least as a way to "buy time" for organic efforts to develop? The average actual cost?

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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. ill-fated attempts to impose global business models unsuited to the Chinese market. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

Consider the global controversies surrounding Facebook’s “social mood contagion” experiments. Everyone online can—if they want to make the effort—become an amateur Asch , Skinner , Zimbardo , Pavlov , Ariely , Kahneman and/or Vernon Smith. And “the internet of things” has barely begun…).

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Decisive actions are required to tackle the factors that prompted the spin-off in the first place, which in many cases are underperformance and/or a lack of strategic fit leading to chronic underinvestment in the development of the business. ” When it comes to divestitures, bad economics usually get discounted in the transaction price.

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

Harvard Business Review

Many recent crises cannot be explained by the misuse of information, as has been so well described by leading books on decision making (notably, Dan Ariely's 2008 book Predictably Irrational and Daniel Kahneman's 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow ). housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis.