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The Rearview Mirror is Far Superior to the Crystal Ball
If your corporate experience is anything like mine, you have spent a tremendous amount of time in meetings over the years. Hundreds or maybe even thousands of meetings, ranging from h [...]
Let Them Learn From Their Mistakes
How are you handling the mistakes that are bound to occur daily in your business or on your team? In my consulting practice, I see far too many leaders and team members falling prey t [...]
Are You a Victim of Your Circumstances or an Optimistic Leader?
When I was a young person in the workplace, corporate leaders and trainers routinely extolled the virtues of being an optimist. They often framed one's state of mind as either pessimi [...]
Cobra Effect
Anyone in a leadership role for any length of time has experienced a situation where we have reviewed a set of circumstances and put together a plan of attack designed to improve the [...]
Don’t Beat a Dead Horse
If you pay any attention at all to the language of business, you're likely to hear a number of phrases that show up over and over in day-to-day corporate conversations. For the most p [...]
Is Anchoring Sinking your Critical Thinking?
Are you convinced that your subject matter expertise about something is the exact thing that enables you to make better decisions about problems related to that subject? On the surfac [...]
Do You Have 10,000 Spare Hours?
We tend to think that if we do something regularly, routinely, and practice it often, we will probably be pretty good at it. In many cases, this is true. You've probably heard of the [...]
The Critical Components of Critical Thinking
When I ask leaders to tell me about the competitiveness of their organizations, they usually start rattling off a long list of favorable metrics about the company. It’s not uncommon f [...]
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