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  • Cogntive Biases in the Boardroom: Implications for leadership and strategy

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    Slideshow: How do cognitive biases affect senior leadership decisions, and what can business strategists and board members do to circumvent the effect of non-rational decision making behavior.     Cognitive biases and leadership decision making from Paul Gibbons

  • VUCA and leadership: What tools do leaders need?

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    VUCA and Leadership The dynamic and fast-changing nature of our world today can be described by VUCA, a term coined by the US Army War College. VUCA stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity…. There are two important megatrends: digitization, and the rise of the developing world. Digitization The first telegraph machine was invented in 1838. Forty years…

  • Will Technology Deliver a Bright Future?

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    Peter Diamandis spoke at The Government Summit in the United Arab Emirates about what the world would be like in 2050, and the technologies that will lead to a world of abundance.  

  • The Skeptics Guide to Neuroscience: Three things you should know

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    Neuroscience or neurobabble Does knowing the chemical formula for the reaction between octane and oxygen that takes place in the internal combustion engine help you repair a car? Will it help you win a Grand Prix? Perhaps not. Systems can be analyzed a number of levels from the quantum to the cosmic.  For information to be useful…

  • Risks and Misuse of Big Data – Learning from Bank Fraud

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    In 1995, I was tapped on the shoulder at Coopers (now PwC) by a partner in the forensic accounting practice who was leading our investigation into a 93 million pound fraud ($140m) at NatWest bank. “Gibbons, you traded options, did you not?” “Some”, I replied. Then, suspiciously, “It says here you speak French?” Once he…

  • CEO “super-coaches” – Paul Gibbons interviewed by CEO Magazine

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    In 2009, Paul Taffinder (one of my mentors) and I were interviewed for CEO Magazine about our role as CEO super coaches. In this short piece, we talk about why CEOs use coaches, what specific problems they bring to us, and about our approaches. Download the full article here: ceo-super-coach The chief executive must personify…

  • Book trailer for The Science of Organizational Change

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    This is a short video summary of The Science of Successful Organizational Change. The book is available on Amazon.com by clicking on the book image below.

  • Meta-strategies for 21st Century Leaders

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    Yin and yang strategy Strategy is a dance between “hard” approaches, which set direction, plan, and persevere, and “soft” approaches which sense, respond, and flex.  Lots of writing on strategy maintains one is better than the other, rise and fall like hemlines with “soft” strategies currently in vogue (emergent strategy, adaptive strategy, lean strategy, discovery-driven…

  • 7 Myths and Cognitive Biases that Might be Killing Your Career?

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    Helping people find careers they love sometimes means helping them get out of their own way.  These seven career myths and cognitive biases are the most damaging. Which might be getting in your way? This summary of career myths is from Reboot Your Career, co-authored with Tim Ragan, and available end-September 2016.  The article first appeared in…

  • Is Pursuit of Happiness Making You Miserable?

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    The happiness disease? The idea that happiness is the most important goal in life has a lot going for it. Philosophers, Eastern and Western, from John Stuart Mill, to the Buddha, testify to its importance. Visit the psychology section of your local bookstore and every second title, it seems, is about happiness. I’m going to…

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