Mark Sandborn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Confirmation Bias Leaders with confirmation bias tend to search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms their preexisting beliefs or values. Overconfidence Effect This cognitive bias leads leaders to overestimate their knowledge, skills, or abilities, often resulting in rash decisions without adequate planning.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

We are all subject to cognitive bias. Certainly, framing and context can help us to make decisions more efficiently, but cognitive bias also can lead us to errors in judgment because we are not being completely rational and objective. Cognitive Bias and Strategy Planning. Anchoring Bias. Attribution Error.

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Get Lighthouse

JUNE 2, 2022

We've talked about why this is the case a number of times on the Lighthouse blog. The inherent bias in evaluating other people's skills (62% of score variance is based on your own skill level). When those habits are not anchored to any existing need, and do not have a natural reward, it's difficult for them to stick.

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Mark Sandborn

MARCH 22, 2022

In a post-Covid world where everything has changed at once, planning and process are an anchor and impediment to leading well. A bias for action is a good thing IF it is the right action and if it takes an organization to WHERE it wants to be. Experimentation and agility trump planning and process. What do they all have in common?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Having an unacknowledged preference, or confirmation bias, can lead you astray. Placing too much importance on one piece of information, a decision making anchor, can send managers off in the wrong direction. Good decision makers carefully consider both the present and the future before determining the best path forward.

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Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The key hallmarks of Likert scale questions are offering a set rating scale (typically 5 or 7 points) with clear, descriptive anchors attached to numeric responses. We also have a blog that talks about the employee engagement survey questions that an organization can ask.

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