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7 Ways for Leaders to Deal With Bias

Lead Change Blog

Over time, he quit adding introverts to his team and weeded out those who had joined the team before he took over. He loved having a team of outgoing individuals who didn’t hesitate to share their opinions, even if they had to talk over each other to do so. Include contrarians on every team and listen to what they have to say.

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How Can We Rid Biases From Facial Recognition?

The Horizons Tracker

As Daniel Kahneman explains in Thinking Fast and Slow , we often make snap judgments when we first meet people, with these judgments driven in large part by the various biases and heuristics that allow us to shortcut our decision-making. Training AI.

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What To Ask Your Team Before Acting On Their Recommendation

Eric Jacobson

There's a great article in the June issue of the Harvard Business Review by Daniel Kahneman that includes a 12-question checklist that is designed to unearth cognitive biases of teams making recommendations that leaders take into consideration before they make their decisions. Has the team fallen in love with its proposal?

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How To Remove Biases From Algorithms

The Horizons Tracker

As Daniel Kahneman illustrates in Noise , AI-based systems can be effective in reducing the variability in decision making, but they nonetheless suffer from the biases introduced by the quality of the data used to train the algorithms.

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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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Thinking, Fast and Slow: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011) Why I think this is one of the most important books published during the past decade Given the number and quality of the reviews of this book that have already appeared, there really is not much (if anything) I can contribute…except to explain what [.].

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni. It is also one of the best books to read as it has an in-depth look at strategic HR assessment and other HR subjects. Some other best books to read for an HR professional.

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