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Serendipity and a Serving of Humble Pie

Lead Change Blog

I had heard her words, interpreted them with my filters, and rejected her position outright. However, making time available to reflect and imagine increases the odds of creativity and innovation occurring. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman nailed it when he observed it was incredibly difficult for us to see our own biases.

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

According to Browne, great leadership is not derived from a person’s position title but rather from their inherent character. Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By Amy C.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. The behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman once noted that “if you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as systematic. Boost Your Positive Intake. We are too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.” By early 2017, about 2.2

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

According to Browne, great leadership is not derived from a person’s position title but rather from their inherent character. Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By Amy C.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. It’s in the new that insights, ideas, and innovation comes from. Consider their challenges, their needs, and how you are positioned to help them meet those needs and overcome those challenges. The more positive the employee experience, the more likely your employee is going to be dedicated to your organization.

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Optimism: Unfashionable Perhaps, But Necessary

Harvard Business Review

They succumb to changing times and conditions, to innovations by competitors, to poor decisions and lack of adaptability by their owners and managers, and to bad luck. He and his colleagues have coined this positive phenomenon " allophilia " or "love of the other."). Most businesses fail, eventually.

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Happiness and Your Company

Harvard Business Review

It's inspired by the coming together of disparate disciplines including positive psychology, welfare economics, hedonomics, neuroscience, and marketing, For a long time there have been counter-intuitive signs leading Nobel prize winners like Amartya Sen, Jospeh Stigliz and Dan Kahneman, to question the meaning of prosperity.

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