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Decision Making

Decide Now: How Pre-Decisions Can Bring You a More Intentional 2022

We often agonize over non-critical decisions. Deciding what kind of car to buy is probably not going to have a big impact on your career. Deciding how to cut your hair isn’t going to impact your most important relationships. We think long and hard about material decisions. Yet when.

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What’s Your Crisis Story?

External events are dramatically altering our world. Our only choice now, is the story about how we respond. Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri says, “Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.” I became acutely aware.

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The Decisions You Don’t Know You’re Making

Do you make your decisions by design, or by default? Your life is the sum of your decisions. A business is created by the decisions the leaders make or don’t make. A family exists and operates because of decisions. One of the biggest challenges with decision-making, is not the.

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The Case for Emotional Decision-making

Do you make big decisions using logic, or emotion? We’ve been taught not to let emotions cloud our decision-making. But there’s a big difference between making an emotional decision and making a rash decision. As humans, it’s impossible to strip emotion from our decision-making. Nor would you want to..

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Pre-decision making: How to Make Better Decisions under Stress

A critical decision is one that shapes your future, things that affect your career, your relationships, and your reputation. We often agonize over non-critical decisions. Deciding what kind of car to buy is probably not going to have a big impact on your career. Deciding how to cut your.

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The Mental Shortcut That Dumbs Down Your Mind

The human mind loves certainty. Left to its own devices, when faced with a challenging situation, your brain will create a dichotomy, a this or that polarizing choice that simplifies complex situations. It’s not your brain’s fault. The human mind is incredibly complex; every day it has to keep.

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Three Situations That Call For a Red Team

What if you had a team of people whose sole job was to find fault with your thinking? It’s called a Red Team. Used by the CIA, IBM, the Army, news organizations and other businesses, a Red team is a group designed to penetrate your defenses. In a recent.

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Why Compromise Never Works (and What to Do Instead)

What if everything you thought you knew about compromise was wrong? We’ve long been told that “good” people to meet in the middle. Refusal to compromise is widely considered to be the root cause of political polarization, business battles, and divorce wars.  But refusal to compromise isn’t actually the.

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Are You Listening to The Wrong Feedback?

All feedback is not valid. A big problem with feedback is that we often listen to the wrong sources. For example, my friend Julie felt called to make handmade cards. From an early age she crafted masterpieces. She spent hours on each card; they were true works of art. By.

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Are You Trying to Make the Wrong Decision

Do you worry about decisions that you don’t have to make yet? I call them the decisions after the decision. Worrying about them will totally derail you. A client of mine was interviewing for a big promotion. She was excited. On paper it looked like a great opportunity for.

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