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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

To explain further, in a crisis, using diverse perspectives enables the unthinkable to be brought to the table, it avoids groupthink and enables more effective solutions. Leaders with the right temperament and character are necessary during times of uncertainty. McKinsey.

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How to Turn a Wrong Into a Right

Frank Sonnenberg Online

How to Get a Dose of Reality It’s always healthy to practice some uncertainty and park your ego at the door by thinking, “Perhaps I’m wrong about this.” Determine whether a decision is based on sound rationale or is being swayed by groupthink. Unwilling to evaluate whether circumstances changed since a decision was made. Always right.

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Why Work Is Lonely

Harvard Business Review

Early in my career, I was sympathetic to that analysis. I knew it all too well, the fear of being myself at work—or more precisely, the uncertainty about which self to be. It is different from “groupthink.” Don’t End Your Career With Regrets in Your Personal Life. To Get Honest Feedback, Leaders Need to Ask.