“Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.”
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“Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.”
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“Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.”
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“The human side of analytics is the biggest challenge to implementing big data.”
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“Use of analytics is accelerating, and that means more data-driven
decision making and fewer hunches. Evidence-based management
complements analytics by adding validated cause-and-effect relationships
between policies and effects.”
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“Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".”
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“Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.”
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“The problem is not lack of competence, it is confidence without competence.”
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“All of us are not always smarter than one of us, leaders need to distinguish between the wisdom of crowds and the madness of crowds.”
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“The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems.”
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“The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.”
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“Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.”
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“The storm through which you sail, called life, has no calm eye. There never is a “right time” for your big dreams. You never will, by magic, get an extra twenty hours a week when you can do that thing that you have always wanted to do. Start now!”
Source: Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive
“Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.”
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“Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.”
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“We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.”
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“The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.”
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“Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.”
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“Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste”
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“People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.”
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“Resistance to change should be a thing of the past if we could develop growth mindsets and create organizations with growth cultures.”
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“There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management.”
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“That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.”
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“Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.”
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“A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, "here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!”
Source: Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive
“Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.”
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“Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.”
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“Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.”
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“We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.”
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“Leadership must evolve into a “science-based craft”, like surgery.”
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“Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.”
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“Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience.”
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“Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.”
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“Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.”
Source: Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive
“Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.”
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“Malcolm Gladwell puts the "pop" in pop psychology, and although revered in lay circles, is roundly dismissed by experts - even by the researchers he makes famous.”
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