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Lead by Providing Bearing, Room, and Backup

Lead Change Blog

The most obvious way is to start by defining the Why of the organization (Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle ) and in a dialog with your team members to determine what the team’s Why is. Especially when a team member takes a risk and it doesn’t pan out, the way you deal with this is crucial.

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When to Trust Robots with Decisions, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

Moving between these from left to right, we begin with the example of long-term investing, where evidence – and economic theory – tell us that humans do poorly, typically no better than random. The extreme right suggests purely deterministic, mechanical decision problems.

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

Harvard Business Review

On April 4 of this year, Dimon read a short article in the Wall Street Journal about a JPMorgan trader in London, Bruno Iksil, who was making massive bets that exposed the bank to high levels of risk. to be published by Simon and Schuster, which will examine the common failure to notice critical information due to bounded awareness.