RapidStart Leadership

APRIL 9, 2020

It's hard to lead with certainty in uncertain times; here are five things to think about and three ways we can lead confidently despite the unknown. The post How to Lead with Certainty in Uncertain Times appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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How To Leadership Dunning Skills 425

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Often, the skills needed to get a group to work together effectively are not obvious at first, so you get a chance to see the value of elements that are often hidden, such as communicating, giving corrective feedback, delegating, and evaluating.

Goal 13

Goal Dunning Project Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

After all, the most critical test for measuring your effectiveness as a coach lies not in your belief about your own skills but rather on how the recipients of your coaching rate your skills (and on how their own competencies increase afterward). What we found: 24% of the leaders in our sample had overrated their skills.

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Dunning Skills Diversity Cooper 11

Mark Sanborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Overconfidence Effect This cognitive bias leads leaders to overestimate their knowledge, skills, or abilities, often resulting in rash decisions without adequate planning. Examples: A leader promotes an employee based solely on their charisma and popularity, overlooking other important skills. To lead better, learn to think better.

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Dunning Consensus Groupthink Charisma 86

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The implications of this data are: leaders are not good judges of their own effectiveness on valuing diversity; and those leaders who are poorest fail to see the problem, while those who are the best don’t realize their skill and capability. Inclusivity is particularly in the eye of the beholder.

360-Degree Feedback 8

360-Degree Feedback Diversity Dunning Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

And, finally, there are the two trends featured in slides 66 onward: the rise of mobile in China and the current high-skills immigration gap in the U.S. What we presume about other people’s behaviour and futures is likely a valuable indicator of what awaits us in the same situation," Dunning says. All This Talk About Leaning.

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Dunning Kleiner Kaplan IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Anders Ericsson studied what separates the masters from the mediocre in a wide range of cognitively complex skills (from chess to violin), he discovered that the quality of practice determined performance. As Cornell psychologist David Dunning says, “The road to self-insight runs through other people.”

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Dunning Hedge Open-book Course 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

They have to make choices across the business in terms of investment opportunities or talent development — where to place executives to develop skills as future leaders, for instance. But in the vast majority of companies businesses are sufficiently related that some planning and collaboration is needed.

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Benchmarking Dunning CEO Airlines 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

David Dunning and Justin Kruger at Cornell have great research showing that the least competent people often end up in charge because they’re overconfident about their own abilities.). Both skill sets are important, of course, but we may be over-emphasizing generalized leadership qualities and under-emphasizing task competence.

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Quality Leadership Dunning Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

It also comes from not adequately considering the organization''s energy, skill, and policies to accomplish the project. Dun and Bradstreet , known for their insight on businesses, went a notch ahead when they launched data-as-a-service. Even more impressively, their spin out Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

This is the idea that you probably have a lot things that are standing in your way, and these are the reasons that: I don’t have enough time; I don’t have enough skill.

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Open-book Influence Books Entrepreneur 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

A recent study in Denmark has found that indeed, startups create quite a few jobs, but that a disproportionate number of them are low-skilled service jobs. One is that they pay less: A study in the UK has shown that on the average, a startup reaches only $180,000 in revenues after its sixth year, barely enough to pay salaries.

Dunning 8

Dunning Policies Long-term Entrepreneur 8