Tag: Daniel Kahneman

Leadership

Why Logic Is Overrated: How Leaders Worth Following Can Learn to Hack the Irrational Mind

Premise: In the last post, we saw how leaders can benefit a lot by learning from the field of Anthropology. In this post, I am going to share how leaders who learn from the field of behavioural economics can have a better shot at becoming leaders worth following. I will reiterate the importance of the need to understand the complexity that we need to address as leaders in this ever changing environment and in order to address this complexity, our understanding also needs to evolve and learn how to bring different different mindsets/skillsets and toolsets to solve difficult challenges that […]

Inspiration, Leadership

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced Me #18 Daniel Kahneman

The author expresses gratitude to various individuals who’ve shaped their outlook on life and work, including thinkers, leaders, and artists. A significant figure is the late Daniel Kahneman, whose research in Behavioral Economics and decision-making wisdom, articulated in “Thinking Fast and Slow,” profoundly influenced the author. This piece serves both as an acknowledgment of Kahneman’s genius and as an inspiration to others.

Leadership

Making Judgement calls

As leaders, one of the important responsibilities we have is to make decisions and sometimes difficult decisions, when we don’t usually have all the information that we need to make them and one’s that could have a significant impact on us, our teams and the entire business. I’ve written in the past about good decision making here (How to Make Good Decisions) and here (Making Infinitely Better Decisions in Life and In Business) and many more here. The more important a decision tends to be, the less clear the choice seems to be. A lot of times, the options we […]

Leadership

The Willing Embrace of Training

Steven Pressfield, the author of one of the most iconic book on Creativity and its so called nemesis, the resistance – “The War of Art“, in his recent blog post talks about the importance of training for creative professionals. I totally believe that leading is an act of active creation and therefore what is applicable for creative artists is also applicable for all of us leaders (and yes, that also includes you if you are aspiring to be a leader). It is true that deliberate, specific and repetitive training, programs our System 1 (as defined by Daniel Kahneman, which is […]

Inspiration

Insanely Interesting People who Influenced me – #7 Dan Ariely

For the rest of the year, I would like to take a moment and thank the people who have had a significant impact on me as an individual. The way they have lived their lives and their body of work has had an outsized impact on how I think about life in general and and work, in particular. Some of these are contemporary thinkers and some of them are just a memory. Some of them are famous in their own rights and some of them are yet to be found by others. Some of them are young and some of […]