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Are Bosses Always Over-Confident?

The Horizons Tracker

“One key finding of the study is that CEOs with high levels of self-assessment (or CSE) pursue risks in a differential fashion that depends on their particular market’s characteristics,” the researchers explain. By contrast, when these bosses operate in environments that are not dynamic, they’re more likely to follow the pack.

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How Courageous Leaders Address Fear In The Workplace

Tanveer Naseer

When it comes to courageous leadership, the image that often comes to mind is of a leader who is not just assertive in the face of uncertainty, but who also exudes a sense of fearlessness regarding the situation before them. Unfortunately, when it comes to courage in leadership, we often have a wrong impression of what that means.

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Are You Letting Pink Elephants Hold Back Your Team’s Creativity?

Tanveer Naseer

Learn to serve as your organization’s rudder instead of its anchor Neurological studies have found that our brain processes information every five seconds in a binary fashion where it labels the new data as either a reward or a threat.

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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. For example, they many fail to detect or assess profound changes in operating landscapes, like Bear Stearns or Blockbuster did. It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

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The Benefits Of Being A Social Leader For Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

There’s no question that given the faster-pace at which organizations have to operate – along with the increasingly short-term lens through which decisions are now being made – it’s becoming easier for leaders to fall into the trap of making all their communications one-way in order to expedite matters.

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Strategy and The Uncertainty Excuse

Harvard Business Review

When I ask business executives about their company's strategy — or about an apparent lack thereof — they often respond that they can't or won't do strategy because their operating environment is changing so much. making a where-to-play choice) and competing there in some fashion (i.e. In truth every company has a strategy.

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Craft a Remarkable Personal Brand Statement! 29 Steps & Examples

Miles Anthony Smith

Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. Be Confident and Real People don't want to follow leaders who show uncertainty and anxiety. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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