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How Will You Be Remembered As A Leader?

Eric Jacobson

As reported in a recent issue of Harvard Business Review , research by the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman suggests that influence will be determinative. Finally, keep in mind that how you handle yourself during your final months and weeks in power will have a large influence on how you are remembered.

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What Will Your Leadership Legacy Be?

Eric Jacobson

As reported in this month's Harvard Business Review , research by the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman suggests that influence will be determinative. Finally, keep in mind that how you handle yourself during your final months and weeks in power will have a large influence on how you are remembered.

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Better Ways of Thinking About Risks

Harvard Business Review

We described what we meant by that in the consensus report Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow , and in more detail in a collection of readings that introduces the science. As detailed in Daniel Kahneman's best-selling book, Thinking, Fast and Slow , it is only human to misjudge how much we know — and how much others know.

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What I Didn’t Know About Becoming a CEO

Harvard Business Review

That entailed delivering a successful sales pitch accompanied by a written report including some type of quantification supporting my claims. That was the job assignment for many other very skilled people. And yet from the minute we received our SEC approval to manage clients’ assets, I became our chief salesperson.

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Does Money Really Affect Motivation? A Review of the Research

Harvard Business Review

The reported correlation (r =.14) In their words: "Employees earning salaries in the top half of our data range reported similar levels of job satisfaction to those employees earning salaries in the bottom-half of our data range" (p.162). In a widely cited paper , Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton reported that, in the U.S.,

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Why Companies Are Betting Against Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.