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Today’s high pressure, time constrained world often requires leaders to make quick intuitive decisions. Yet, the science shows that our intuition uses a number of mental shortcuts – called heuristics­ ­­– that can often lead to poorer decisions in these moments. In this article, we outline some of these issues, along with lessons on overcoming them …

What Warren Buffet, Charles Darwin and you have in common – wielding the power of intuition Lire la suite »

In our last article, we discussed the biggest barriers to building dynamic, innovative organizations. Here we’ll explore how to overcome these challenges as individuals and as leaders of organizations. Let’s start with the biggest hurdle to this challenge have to get over the first hurdle – the myth that creativity is something you are just born …

Three ingredients to re-igniting creativity Lire la suite »

Creativity is one of the hottest topics in business. A search for “creativity” on Amazon yields over 50,000 hits, and if you look up “creativity in business” on Google Scholar, you will get 2,000,000 research articles. More importantly, 60% of CEOs polled in a recent IBM survey called creativity the most important priority for future organizations. Despite …

Three barriers to creativity in organizations and some surprising ways to overcome them Lire la suite »

In our last article, we looked at why empathy is the most important skill for the 21st century leader. The next question is whether skills like empathy can be trained and improved, or is this just another magical trait that a few lucky people are born with?