Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
In a changing world it is easy to make mistaken assumptions. One of the most common types of these is called ‘extreme thinking’ or ‘blinkered thinking’. Blinkered or extreme thinking happens Continue Reading →
A new Insight from Stanford Business School tells us something we probably already know: that when it’s difficult to predict the outcome, people become less likely to take risks. Researchers found Continue Reading →
They say the word ‘fear’ can stand for two things: “Forget Everything And Run” or “Face Everything And Rise”. Inner Leadership teaches us how to do the second. It makes Continue Reading →
Another common type of mistaken assumption or “mis-blink” we can easily fall into during times of change is called ‘dependency’. This arises when we know what we want to do but Continue Reading →
A fifth type of mistaken thinking that people can easily fall into during times of change is called attachment to outcome. When times are stable, having a strong emotional attachment to Continue Reading →
In a fast-changing world, our old assumptions may no longer hold true. There are eight common ways that this can happen and the second is called ‘shoulds’. Should is a Continue Reading →
When the world is churning it won’t always work the way it used to. Over the past few years, politics and the coronavirus provide a long list of examples where things Continue Reading →
One of the mistaken assumptions we can easily make in a time of change is value judgments. When people don’t behave in the way we want them to it is Continue Reading →
Many years ago, a man set off with his son to walk to market. They took their donkey with them and on the way passed through several villages. At the Continue Reading →
In his bestselling book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell explains how we all make assumptions, all the time. Sometimes we get them right, he says, and Continue Reading →