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How To Hire Better People: Think Contrarian, Not "Best Practices"
Talent acquisition "best practices" force you to work harder, not smarter • To hire great employees, take lessons from online dating ❤️💔 • Part 2/2
Everything I Know About Job Interviews, I Learned from Online Dating ❤️💔
Your hiring process is more like an animal mating ritual than you think • Part 1/2
The Worst is Yet to Come...So is the Best
Prediction blindness revisited • One-eyed leadership in the land of the blind
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When "Best Practices" Produce the Worst Results
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How to Accidentally Fall in Love with a Coworker [NSFW]
Help! I'm in Love with a Coworker! [Part 1, NSFW]
Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 3-Dimensional Thinking
You've Been Promoted. What Now?
Anti-Fragility and Asymmetry Explained: Leadership's Best-Kept Secret
The Dangers of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Does KPI stand for "Key Performance Indicator" or "Kinda Perverse Incentive?" • Leadership Land reader check-in #5
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Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 4-Dimensional Thinking
When practicing leadership in an unpredictable and un-post-dictable world, it's better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 3-Dimensional Thinking
Revisiting the concept of risk & uncertainty in terms of Impact × Probability × Predictability • Introduction to black swan theory
Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 2-Dimensional Thinking
How to think in terms of impact × probability • When to avoid Russian Roulette and when to play • Examples of risk and uncertainty in business (and what…
Lessons on Reverse Psychology from the Trump Administration
How the Trump administration's Fork in the Road "buyout offer" to federal government employees backfired • Lessons learned and applied to change…
Risk and Uncertainty in Leadership: 1-Dimensional Thinking
What is risk and uncertainty, anyway? • Spectral thinking is better than binary thinking • Fragility, robustness, and anti-fragility vs. risk
How to Discover Secrets in Leadership Land, Part 2
How secrets transform into conventional wisdom • What happens when secrets return to the Unknown Abyss • The secret-seeker’s toolkit
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Defining a good leader by what a bad leader is not ⋅ Avoiding failure to ensure that success is a one-way journey, not a round trip.
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