Many folks would assume that companies, rational optimizers that they are, avoid spending much time on low-impact high-effort projects. Unfortunately that isn’t consistently the case. It’s surprisingly common for a new senior leader to join a company and immediately drive a strategy shift that fundamentally misunderstands the challenges at hand. Th... See more

We tend to look for leaders to provide something few ever really could—salvation from the things that threaten us. But the more constructive analysis would be to acknowledge that the real requirement in the people who lead us is not status but actual leadership, or the ability to effectively oversee the multidimensional Risk Control Factors—to turn

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Your Turn What biases are endemic to your organization and its culture? To your industry? What are the sources of your biases? What are the structural or cultural factors that create or reinforce biases in your organization? How can you mitigate the impact of biases? The Bottom Line Biases are the lens through which we see the world. Often rooted i

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