15 September 2007
The phrase “Strong Opinions, Weakly Held” from a post by Bob Sutton describes an important philosophy for leaders, Bob Sutton describes the importance of this idea as: “….the virtues of wise people – those who have the courage to act on their knowledge, but the humility to doubt what they know…to deal with an uncertain [...]
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Decision-Making,
Mental Model,
Paradox,
Thinking
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15 October 2006
James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras in their book Built to Last talk about how leaders get caught in what they call “The Tyranny of the Or,” the belief that you cannot live with two seemingly contradictory ideas at the same time, that you can have change or stability, you can be conservative or [...]
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Change,
Paradox
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