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Defeating Skepticism: Trusting in Others’ Ideas
In last week’s blog post we looked at the role personal bias can often play in creating a default attitude of skepticism. A leader with a negative bias over a certain topic will be unable to assess it with objective eyes. These biases and negative prior experiences...
Defeating Skepticism: Shaking Personal Bias
“Success may instill confidence, but it is failure that imparts wisdom. With wisdom comes the inner serenity needed to create a bridge between failure and success.” – Gary Burnison In last week’s blog post we took a look at the problem of constant skepticism in our...
Defeating Skepticism
Skepticism in leadership takes on several forms; some are advantageous, and some are detrimental. In its truest sense, skepticism is a logical and rational challenge of ideas to get to the reality or truth about a specific issue. Leaders with such a constructive,...
The Paradox of Leadership: Strengthening the Giver’s Image
In last week’s blog post we took a look at the sometimes hidden benefits of being a giving leader. While on the surface people tend to think somebody that is a taker will be a better leader, more successful, and advance further in their careers, we’ve discovered just...
The Paradox of Leadership: The Surprise About Giving
In last week’s blog post we looked at the damaging effects of leadership that is based on always taking and not giving to others on your team. Leaders that tend to take from others inflict this career damage upon themselves – all because of their poor treatment of the...
The Paradox of Leadership: The Deception About Taking
In last week’s blog post we took a look at some of the stereotypes surrounding leaders, and the expected behaviours/attitudes of successful leaders. An aggressive, self-serving leader is generally seen as powerful, competent, and productive. We assume this “taker” is...
The Paradox of Leadership: Give and Take
Western leaders have been conditioned for generations to believe that the way to advance is to claim as much as possible, to take more than you give. Many leaders make personal gain the objective of business, and almost any means to achieve it is fair game. Hard work,...
In Search of Self-Confidence: Improving Your Authentic Confidence
“Impatient parents, critical siblings, and inept teachers all can turn the impressionable and moldable young child into someone lacking the basic tools for confidence. Yet this doesn’t condemn us. It just means we have to develop the required attributes for confidence...
In Search of Self-Confidence: False vs. Authentic Confidence
In last week’s blog post we looked at the prevalence of self-confidence issues, and discussed some of the common tactics used to cover up these insecurities. The majority of people struggle with self-confidence issues at point in their lives; luckily developing a...
In Search of Self-Confidence
Even successful people want more self-confidence. People who exude self-assurance easily influence others, get more promotions, earn more money, and seem to have more fun and success. Some people naturally seem to have it; perhaps they were born lucky with the right...
Improving Self-Awareness: Recognizing and Learning From Our Beliefs
In last week’s blog post we talked about the importance of reflecting upon and learning from our constant mind-chatter. This inner monologue explains a lot about how you perceive and react to the world. It also influences how others perceive and react to you, so it’s...
Improving Self-Awareness: Reflecting on Your Inner Monologue
Our inner monologue runs nonstop, whether we pay attention to it or not. It is a valuable source of self-awareness and a key to knowing our blind spots. In last week’s blog post we talked about the practice of revealing our inner monologue, and becoming aware of our...
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