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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. The idea that the "cream will rise to the top" is too often more than offset by the Dunning-Kruger effect; and the real leader's highmindedness will be viewed as a threat to the status quo. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough. I Think Not.

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10 Common Thinking Errors Leaders Make

Mark Sanborn

This can result in poor decision-making and a lack of innovative thinking. Halo Effect Leaders influenced by the halo effect judge someone’s performance or character based on a single positive trait. Dunning-Kruger Effect Incompetent leaders overestimate their ability, not recognizing their lack of skill.

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0507 | Denise Brosseau: Full Transcript

LDRLB

How do you multiply your influence? DAVID: And the book in that aim is the latest culmination of that goal, Ready to Be a Thought Leader: How to Increase Your Influence, Impact, and Success. It’s the same thing you can use, this ripples of influence thing, to become a thought leader. This is second chapter.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.