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3 Things You Need to Control to Succeed as a Leader

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Then, you need to direct your thinking and feeling patterns, and the behaviors that result, to evaluating reality clearly, making the wisest decisions, and accomplishing your goals. Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for his research on behavioral economics, calls them System 1 and 2. So how do our minds work?

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Happiness Self vs. Memory Self

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Daniel Kahneman , Nobel Laureate and founder of behavioral economics, says that we have two selves: our experiencing self and our memory self. Our memory self is more interested in goal attainment than comfort and familiarity; it seeks out experiences that make for good, memorable stories. The Relationship Between Happiness and Memory.

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Reading List: What’s on yours?

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I believe that this single goal, and the years of reading that followed, had a significant impact on not only how I look at leaders, but how I gain understanding and experience from leaders with whom I have the privilege to associate. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

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. Company executives were split on the matter. Employees need to see how their experiments support an overall strategic goal.

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Happiness Self vs. Memory Self

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Daniel Kahneman , Nobel Laureate and founder of behavioral economics, says that we have two selves: our experiencing self and our memory self. Our memory self is more interested in goal attainment than comfort and familiarity; it seeks out experiences that make for good, memorable stories. The Relationship Between Happiness and Memory.

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Delivering Constructive Feedback: How and Why

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But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they’re very likely to be wrong” – Daniel Kahneman. It is unclear where feedback comes from or where it is going – For feedback to be good, it must have GPS coordinates (Goal, Position, & Strategy). Goal: Where is it we are going?

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Delivering and Receiving Constructive Feedback: How and Why

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But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they’re very likely to be wrong” – Daniel Kahneman First Understand Before Being Understood In the management/coaching space, this simple statement is said so often and yet not ever enough. Goal: Where is it we are going?