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Fuel for thought...

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A leader’s key role is to create positive energy and momentum...

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Inspire

Persevere

Well Being "if I'm OK then you're OK"

Believe

Communication 

Where do I fit into the workplace, community, country, world

Contribution, being part of something bigger than just yourself 

Coping with worldwide affairs, natural disasters, negative workplace cultures and other obstacles out of ones control

Have something up your sleeve...

Agile

Tangible 

Focus on goals

Foundations in place...

Make a plan, pivot or change 

Risks

Consider the future - what could it look like in ten, twenty, thirty years time if we roll out this or implement that? Consequences of your actions

What does it look like to the outside world - what I do, what we do... 

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oppps I mean yourstoexperience - worldwide experiences, EXPERIENCES worldwide :-)

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Work-Life-Balance
Fairness
Culture

 

Beware The Special Case 
 

Confirmation bias (Part 1)

The confirmation bias is the mother of all misconceptions. It is the tendency to interpret new information so that it becomes compatible with our existing theories, beliefs and convictions. 

 

 

The following experiment shows how much effort it takes to question your own theory.

A professor presented his students with the number sequence 2-4-6. They had to calculate the underlying rule that the professor had written on the back of a sheet of paper. The students had to provide the next number in sequence, to which the professor would reply "fits the rule" or "does not fit the rule".

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The students could guess as many numbers as they wanted, but could try to identify the rule only once. Most students suggested 8 as the next number, and the professor replied "fits the rule." To be sure, they tried 10, 12 and 14. The professor replied each time "Fits the rule." The students concluded that: "The rule is to add two to the last number." The professor shook his head: "That is not the rule."

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One shrewd student tried a different approach. He tested out the number -2. The professor said "Does not fit the rule." "Seven he asked. "Fits the rule." The student tried all sorts of numbers -24, 9, -43...Apparently an idea, and he was trying to find a flaw with it. Only when he could no longer find a counter-example, "The student said the rule is this: the next number must be higher than the previous one."

The professor turned over the the sheet of paper, and this is exactly what he'd written down.

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source: the art of thinking clearly - rolf dobelli - "The International Bestseller"


Availability Bias

The availability bias has an established seat at the corporate board's table, too. Board members discuss what management has submitted - usually quarterly figures - instead of more important things, such as a clever move by the competition, a slump in employee motivation or an unexpected change in customer behaviour.  They tend to discuss what's next on the agenda. 

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In addition, people prefer information that is easy to obtain, be it economic data or recipes. They make decisions based on this information rather than on more relevant but harder to  obtain information - often with disastrous results.

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What was it that Frank Sinatra sang? "Oh my heart is beating wildly/And it's all because you're here/When I'm not near the girl I love/I love the girl I'm near."

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A perfect example of the availability bias.

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Fend it off by spending time with people who think differently than you think - people whose experiences and expertise are different than yours. 

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We require others' input to overcome the availability bias. 

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sourcethe art of thinking clearly - rolf dobelli - "The International Bestseller"

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