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Self-awareness

A collection of 22 posts

Self-awareness

Taking Swift Action Is Powerful

The theory behind ‘jump first, ask questions later’ is that when your thinking ability kicks in, your fear and instinct to back down is stimulated. Thinking about making a decision has its merits,

  • Gonca Esendemir
    Gonca Esendemir
1 min read
Self-awareness

Ways smart people undermine their success

At most jobs, you need more than raw intelligence to get ahead. And if smarts is your strength, only focusing on your greatest strength, rather than also addressing your weaknesses, tends to be

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Celebrate the incomplete-human-leader

Drop the myth of the complete leader at the top who's got it all figured out. Only when leaders embrace seeing themselves as incomplete are they be able to make up for their

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
2 min read
Self-awareness

Decisions determine our reality

The decisions we make determine our reality, and we make about 2,000 of them every waking hour, so inevitably, we all make some poor decisions every single day. But if we are

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
2 min read
Self-awareness

Become your best self

Receiving affirmation is a powerful way for us to grow, particularly when it comes in the form of stories describing moments when we are at our best. Research shows that people benefit significantly

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Improve your thought patterns

To see how your mind can lead you astray it’s not enough to look at what you’re thinking; you need to examine how you’re thinking, too. First, ask yourself, is

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Efficiency can limit your success

Great leaders balance task-focus (getting things done) with people-focus (inspiring, developing, and empowering others). They recognize that it’s not about being efficient, it’s about being effective. Ironically, an intense focus on

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Overcome fear of failing

It's easy to hedge against failure to avoid risking blaming yourself for failure, and it won't make you successful. Paying lip service to the noble concept of trial and error also isn't enough.

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Discover your best self by judging, yes really

What you desire, and what you do not desire, defines who you are in a unique and personal manner. When you do activities that match up with your motives, your career and life

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

How you do things matters

How you do anything is how you can do everything. President Andrew Johnson would speak proudly of his career as a tailor before he entered politics. On the campaign trail, a heckler once

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Build better self-awareness

A study on self-awareness revealed that 95% of us think we are quite self-aware, but only about 10-15% of us are. The good news is that great teams can help with our self-awareness.

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Become a better listener

We are facing more distractions than ever before, and our attention span is reportedly down to 8 seconds much thanks to social media, smart devices, emails, instant messaging, apps, etc. With that, it's

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Learn to mistrust impressions

As leaders it's important to recognize that not all illusions are visual, there are lots of cognitive ones that can fool us each day unless we pay attention and distinguish between impressions and beliefs.

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

You may be smarter than you think

Academic degrees do not necessarily make a person smarter, and the most intelligent people are not always the people with the highest degrees. Below are some signs indicating you're smarter than you think

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Fix your blind spots

Great leaders are believed to know what their organizations and teams need intuitively. But no one is perfect, and most leaders have blind spots such as: Overestimating strategic ability - Thinking that you're

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Master of self-awareness

Self-awareness is not part of the curriculum in most management programs. Although strategy and MBA-logic are essential, so is self-awareness. Lacking it may be blinding and lead to suboptimal long-term financial and cultural

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Become a compelling speaker

The ability to communicate effectively can make or break a person’s assessment of your intelligence, competence, and authenticity. Expertly employ Tumlin’s three musts for powerful and persuasive communication: 1) Be still:

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Motivation: It’s all in your head

Don’t think about what you want to get done in terms of something you “have to do.” Begin thinking in terms of getting your work done because you “choose to” or “want

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Falling prey to bias

Humans evaluate information in a biased manner. For instance, we often fall prey to confirmation bias; the tendency to focus on evidence that confirms our beliefs and assumptions rather than looking for information

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Learn who you are

Always striving to learn more about who we are, and remaining open to how we view ourselves, allows us to remain humble and accepting of others. The alternative of having a strict belief

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Things that matter more than IQ

Four super important things for aspiring leaders:   1. Develop an ability to understand what's going on with people around you and stop stressing about being the smartest person in the room. 2. Learn

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
Self-awareness

Want your team to trust you?

People who feel trusted typically turn into higher performers and tend to put more effort into their work. So how do we ensure that we build trust? Start by trusting your team!   Research

  • Patrik Hellstrand
    Patrik Hellstrand
1 min read
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