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People Who Think They’re Great Coaches Often Aren’t

Harvard Business Review

“I think I am a pretty good coach,” the executive across the desk said to us. This phenomenon was described by two Cornell psychologists, David Dunning and Justin Kruger, who observed that for any given skill, incompetent people fail to recognize their own deficiencies and don’t recognize the skill in others.

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How to Manage Biased People

Harvard Business Review

Instead, he fell into the common trap of failing to recognize how organizational biases can derail the execution of that strategy. Having demonstrated the fallacies, you’re now positioned to win the staff over to your camp in forging, launching, and executing a better strategy. Execution Managing people Strategy'

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0507 | Denise Brosseau: Full Transcript

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I work with executives and entrepreneurs. So “O” is all about overcoming resistance. I think similarly with Zoe Dunning, that the person mentioned in the military, she was the only one that was allowed to speak as the only openly gay person in the military, so she had a community she was standing for.