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What do we Know about Reality? Nothing, Really!
Brain science reveals a lot about how we interpret life, especially to fit our personal worldview or reality. Some of those distinctions are:
Conformational bias: Looking for qualities and behaviors that confirm your beliefs about someone or something while ignoring those that contradict your beliefs.
2. Halo/horns: When a positive or negative impression of someone carries over into all future interactions with that person.
3. Stereotyping: making assumptions based on appearance, or grouping people to assume they are all the same
4. Similarity effect: Having greater confidence or trust in someone because they are like us.
5. Motivational blindness: the tendency to not notice the unethical actions of others when it is against our own best interests to notice. (this is a wicked one!)
Conscious Capitalism
If you treat people with consciousness and a concern for your impact on them, in business or in life, you will get a higher return on your effort than if you do not!
The economics of decency: a powerful paradigm for leadership?
In the world of business... profit, advancement, proving oneself, etc., can often blind us to bringing decency into the equation. It is our intention to demonstrate such thinking is short-sighted!
The economics of decency
Organizations that choose to build their success on the sound principles of economics and the practices of decency can lead the way to return our society to a more collaborative and harmonious character.
Without Derives from Within
Hidden within our blind spots are our “limiting factors.” What you see in the mirror is created by your beliefs, some are self-defeating, limiting. Finding them takes dedicated work, the rewards are exponential to the work.One final lesson from the Gospels of Thomas said, “never desist, find the light.”
A Sustainable Culture Happens by Design
Our general success at running our lives on autopilot gives us the false impression that we are present and operating successfully. Truly sustaining high performance takes recognizing that the conversation steadily running through your mind, aka the “Narrator”, is not a kind of thinking.
A Public Service Announcement
This year, we are going to present a few of the key distinctions that leaders must model to sustain high performance.
Developing ownership & accountability in your organization
Examining how "perception = reality/default listening"
Increasing engagement and trust by expanding your own awareness
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