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Why Leaders Don’t Think Straight

Leadership Freak

Daniel Kahneman Unmanaged thinking distorts reality. Ruminating on what’s wrong exaggerates the importance of wrong. Nothing is as important as you think it is, while you’re thinking about it.” In a world filled… Continue reading →

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Coaching Can Help Leaders Manage Their Emotions

The Horizons Tracker

When Daniel Kahneman proposed Systems 1 and 2 thinking, it was generally System 2 that took most of the plaudits. Events, such as career shocks, can be either positive, in the sense of gaining an unexpected promotion, or negative, in the sense of losing one’s job. Emotional responses.

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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. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman nailed it when he observed it was incredibly difficult for us to see our own biases. Blindly accepting my stance that it was impossible to schedule serendipity as correct, I had failed to examine her meaning.

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How Leaders Can Develop Their Skills With One Simple Habit

Tanveer Naseer

The idea of cognitive biases was introduced by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the early 1970s. Tversky and Kahneman also showed that they could predict quite accurately when people would act irrationally, because the irrational behavior was due to measurable cognitive 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. Instead, an engaged workforce results when the focus is on developing, motivating, and empowering employees.

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Focus on the Goal, Not the Problem

CO2

They get caught in what Daniel Kahneman calls System 1 thinking: fast, instinctive, and emotional. Naturally, clients don’t always jump into a super-positive state and stay there. Sometimes venting helps them decompress, but too much venting can result in defeatism and paradigm paralysis. What do you want to accomplish?

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Happiness Self vs. Memory Self

CO2

Daniel Kahneman , Nobel Laureate and founder of behavioral economics, says that we have two selves: our experiencing self and our memory self. If the event ends well, we’re more apt to remember it positively. by Gary Cohen. The Relationship Between Happiness and Memory.

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