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How Leaders Can Develop Their Skills With One Simple Habit

Tanveer Naseer

For most of us, our default mode of operating in the world is to be caught up in our thinking. The idea of cognitive biases was introduced by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the early 1970s. We must also be able to build and sustain team cultures that have positive emotional climates.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. If you’re operating as a know-it-all, you have an underlying belief that that any new stuff really isn’t of much value. Consider their challenges, their needs, and how you are positioned to help them meet those needs and overcome those challenges. I recently spoke with him about his work. The second cost is ego.

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Why New Leaders Should Be Wary of Quick Wins

Harvard Business Review

As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. He would have elevated above the action to a position where he could have exercised better judgment. HBR Staff/Clare Jackson/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

But a study from 1999 found that long-run performance of both the former parent company and the divested unit is strongly positive, provided that the spin-off increases the company’s focus. A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. Mergers & acquisitions'

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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. Finally, on April 30, Dimon demanded to see the specific trading positions.