As a leader you need to ask yourself three questions about your network and score of your answers out of 5: [1] How important is the quality of your network to accomplishing your goals, [2] How do you rate the quality of your current network, and [3] How smartly do you work to maximise your network advantages?
Typically, I hear executives answer 4–5, 3–2, and 1–2, respectively. If you’re like most, you are in this zone, so read on…
Smarter networking extends the well-known maxim “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”. While this is certainly sound...
Fear of failure is pervasive. It affects everyone to varying degrees and in different ways. While most of us recognise...
Thank you for the feedback is written to help you get a good deal more from the feedback you receive.
It’s a well-known saying that bread is the staff of life. I say feedback is as important to psychological and social wellbeing, as good bread is to nutritional and physical health. To be useful, bread must be ingested, digested and absorbed – and in a biblical sense, thanks given. So too with feedback, it must be received, understood and acted on – and the receipt of feedback must be acknowledged and the feedback giver thanked. Trouble is, all too often feedback doesn’t work in this way.A synonym for confirmation bias is myside bias, which connotes the deep, personal nature of this particular form of bias. Of the dozen or so biases that can negatively influence our decision-making, the myside type is amongst the most important and insidious. In this post, I explain why it occurs, the consequences of succumbing, and how to avoid it.‘What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact’.
A year ago, my ‘Never good enough’ post struck a nerve with readers of this blog and my LinkedIn page. Many...
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