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How to Avoid Leadership Decision Errors

By chipscholz | Published: May 3, 2013
What can smart leaders do to avoid making decisions errors that lead to business and career bloopers? You can start by reading Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath as well as Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Working with an executive coach can raise your level of awareness about your own thinking. For example, [...]
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Leadership Decisions: Fast and Slow Thinking

By chipscholz | Published: May 1, 2013
If you haven’t read this great book on leadership decision making, I suggest you do: Nobel Prize laureate Daniel Kahneman writes in Thinking, Fast and Slow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011): My intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of [...]
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Leaders: Are You Getting Enough Brain Exercise?

By chipscholz | Published: March 28, 2013
As a busy executive, you barely have time to get enough physical exercise into your schedule. And now it’s just as important you keep your brain fit and strong if you want a competitive advantage as a high potential leader. The American Heart Association recommends 30 minutes of moderate physical exercise five days a week. [...]
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Leaders: How Fit Is Your Brain?

By chipscholz | Published: March 26, 2013
We’ve known for some time that leaders require higher levels of emotional intelligence as they pursue career advancement. There’s now accumulating evidence that cognitive fitness is becoming a focal area for high-achieving leaders. Until recently, busy executives could find few guidelines for increasing mental fitness on the job. There are thousands of books about leadership [...]
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Autopilot at Work: 3 More Ways to Wake Up Your Brain

By chipscholz | Published: March 21, 2013
In my last two posts here and here, I talk about becoming more mindful. We need to take ourselves off autopilot and wake up our brains. Most of us organize our work tasks with to-do lists in order to prioritize and focus on getting done what matters most. But the danger is that we focus [...]
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4 Ways to Take Your Brain Off Autopilot

By chipscholz | Published: March 19, 2013
Is your work becoming so habitual you’re on autopilot? I was talking with a business leader the other day who was telling me how he got more done than anyone else because of his ability to focus and prioritize. He had everything organized into a system of routines and habits. If A, then B. One, [...]
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Zombies at Work: Are You Living on Autopilot?

By chipscholz | Published: March 14, 2013
More than two-thirds of us are living and working on autopilot, according to even the most conservative estimates. You’ve probably noticed a few zombies at work in your office. A pattern of behavior can become so habitual that one barely notices anymore what it prompts one to do. One feels automatically, thinks automatically and acts [...]
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What Should Leaders Do When Trust Is Broken?

By chipscholz | Published: March 12, 2013
What should you do when trust is broken in your company? Given the rapid and uncertain business climate we’re in,  it’s no wonder leaders can say the wrong thing in haste, or even the right thing but in the wrong way at the wrong time. When that happens, trust is broken. It takes years to [...]
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Is There a Leadership Trust Deficit in Your Workplace?

By chipscholz | Published: February 21, 2013
The leaders I work with are 99.9 percent trustworthy. At least in the relationships we have, there is no doubt in my mind they are good people genuinely interested in bringing out the best in themselves and those who work for them. They are leaders you can trust. And yet, if we were to survey [...]
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Leadership Health: Tough Choices

By chipscholz | Published: February 18, 2013
Leaders deal with tough choices all the time. But when it comes to their own health, they are often self-defeating and self-deceiving! I don’t buy the excuse that some of us don’t have time for exercise. Or the excuse that we don’t really need to or can’t reduce our stress levels. Here’s why: It all [...]
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