Leadership Team Building and Survivorship Bias

This sycophantic praise of leadership creating straw man arguments that only the ubermensch can fulfill, causes unfulfilled desire to emulate the few who were lucky, or born with privilege or amassed success.

How do you think about the what you are thinking?

The what of our thinking comes from training, reading, experience and other methods of learning.

The how of our thinking is different. It is how you think about the what you are thinking about.

5 Steps to Critical Thinking

When you are presented with a claim, piece of evidence, a process, organizational system really anything that YOU as a manager and a person who makes decisions at work has to explore + think about and decide. Walk through these 5 steps;

Thinking happy thoughts will not make your organization, team, and you any better, prosperous, or successful

This realism is taking into process of Team Building / leadership / personal development external systems outside of yourself. Realizing that what others notice about you is a realistic view. Taking notice of situations behaviors, processes, environments and finding what the success in those areas was, and how to replicate those scenarios will lead to continued success. I am not taking a hard pessimistic role, what I am championing is a realistic view point that once people are able to examine how their interactions and behaviors impact others, the team can discuss this, and then lead to an organizational reality of thought.

Simply “thinking happy thoughts” will not make your organization, team, and you any better, prosperous, or successful.