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Employees Wired for Self-Interest: You Go First and Get Me Right Did you realize everyone, including your employees, is wired for self-interest? Okay, consider the perspective of your employee, who’s thinking: “I need you to go first, ‘get me right,’ then I will happily focus on my teammate’s welfare. This feeling of connection comes from […]

The Science of Smart Decisions: How Decision Science Transforms Leadership Development Most of the time, others yield to the highest-ranking person in the room to make the safest decision and play it safe themselves, too. Making the right decision based solely on past experiences could be a mistake. It could be heavily biased thinking, or

Mastering Conversational Intelligence for Strategic Leadership Have you ever felt like you were required to collaborate with the enemy who happens to be your peer or internal customer, and you are both cross-functionally dependent on each other? You feel that you’re working hard to make connections, learn the business, or get through your to-do list,

Discernment: A Critical Leadership Power for Upgrading Decision-Making I always tell my child that being a parent does not come with a how-to user manual, even though it would have been nice to reference standard operating procedures (SOPs) just once—more specifically, as my son ascended into adolescence, where the stakes were higher. Much like parenting