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3 Things You Need to Control to Succeed as a Leader

Leading Blog

If we can take charge over those, we can lead our organizations, and our lives, to our own vision of success. 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. So how do our minds work?

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Focus on the Goal, Not the Problem

CO2

by Gary Cohen Focus on the Goal, Not the Problem. When I first meet with clients, they tend to want to focus on their current state (or the organization’s) and specific challenges. They get caught in what Daniel Kahneman calls System 1 thinking: fast, instinctive, and emotional. Questions to Ask when Goal Seeking.

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What True Leaders Know About Emotional Intelligence

Lead Change Blog

After all, the only things we can control in life are our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and if we can manage those, we can lead our organizations from anywhere in the hierarchy. Roughly speaking, we have two thinking systems. The autopilot system corresponds to our emotions and intuitions. How do our minds work?

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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. What I saw was the scientific method fully deployed in organizations—and turbocharged! For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions.

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Delivering Constructive Feedback: How and Why

CO2

Think for a moment about the employee that resists feedback and how tiresome it is to be on the same team or even in the same organization as them. Your body releases chemicals that flood your system and creates barriers to your listening openly and being focused. Goal: Where is it we are going? ” 2.

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Delivering and Receiving Constructive Feedback: How and Why

CO2

Think for a moment about the employee that resists feedback and how tiresome it is to be on the same team or even in the same organization as them. Your body releases chemicals that flood your system and creates barriers to your listening openly and being focused. Goal: Where is it we are going? ” 2.

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A Checklist for Making Faster, Better Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Setting goals (another tool) is aspirational, but making decisions actually drives action. For comparison, goal-setting best practices helped managers achieve expected results only 30% of the time.) But although there’s great potential for using best practices to improve decision making, many organizations are not doing it.