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Just do it! How to make decisions like a professional athlete

In our last article, we discussed how mental shortcuts such as loss aversion and confirmation bias can impede our ability to make good intuitive decisions. To counter this, various de-biasing techniques have been suggested to help leaders make more efficient decisions. For example, the Checklist Manifesto has proven to be an extremely effective technique for improving decision making in many …

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

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 …

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Three barriers to creativity in organizations and some surprising ways to overcome them

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 …

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