The Problem with “Drift”

Woman floating in water

How great leadership teams address their most pressing problems

One of the things I enjoy doing most is working with Teams in solving problems. There are a number of elements to problem solving (or creating solutions) and one of the techniques we use is (more…)

Bowie. The man who …

I watch the ripples change their size

But never leave the stream

Of warm impermanence and (more…)

I don’t want to go to Chelsea…

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…)

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.

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