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How to motivate, inspire and engage people at work.

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Show #217 - Why good leaders make bad decisions

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Today is a wonderful interview with Sydney Finkelstein who has just written a fantastic business book called Think Again. This is a follow up to Why Smart Executives Fail. Sydney is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and Director of Tuck Executive Program. If you want to boost your career this is a great podcast interview as we talk about

  • The key to effective decision making
  • How do we check our sub conscious thinking patterns?
  • Is a good decision impossible!
  • How to choose the right people to help you make the right decision.
  • How to free up your sub conscious minds
  • Can you be in a job too long?
  • How to make the right decision rather than an emotional decision when downsizing or making redundancies
  • The difference between reducing costs and retaining value
  • The emotional effect of decision making
  • How do you recognise the difference between good and bad self interest?
  • How do I build safeguards to ensure that my own self interest doesn't become a negative aspect of my career?
  • How do you differentiate between intuition and a preformed judgment?

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