What do we do with staff who take the initiative?
I don’t want to check your pulse
I don’t want nobody else
I don’t want to go to Chelsea
So sang Elvis Costello and anyone (more…)
I don’t want to go to Chelsea…
When the juice doesn’t work …
The danger of inflated self-assessment
I’ve previously mentioned humility in leadership and it’s a theme I would like to pick up on.
The following story comes from a paper by James Kruger and David Dunning (Psychology Today, 2009) who studied cognitive bias; the tendency to inflate our own assessments of our own abilities.