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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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Being Conscious About Our Unconscious Biases

QAspire

The term ‘cognitive bias’ was coined by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in 1972 which quite simply means “our tendency to filter information, process facts and arrive at judgments based on our past experiences, likes/dislikes and automatic influences.”. This was a good opportunity to get back to the topic and add to my understanding.

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The Planning Fallacy and the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. That's less than 5 percent of our revenues, so that should be quite doable.".

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Reframe Your Strategy to Avoid Hidden Biases

Harvard Business Review

Their approach, however, does little to reveal the biases embedded in the assumptions held by management teams and reflected in the frameworks they use. These biases arise from what Kahneman and his long-time research partner Amos Tversky call framing. Framing defines the way we approach problems or seek to achieve objectives.