Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness
Our brains make us naturally defensive, but there are steps we can take to cultivate more humility.
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I became an engineering leader accidentally. I now realize that this taught me the single most important thing about leadership. Effective…
Mistakes Managers Should Avoid
Some managers keep diaries of their on-the-job mistakes, partly to avoid repeating errors, and partly to make employees comfortable with failure. At least one added cartoons.
Fixing the Smartest Person in the Room Issue
The “Smartest Person in the Room” Issue, Its Importance in Business & Especially in Startups As a startup founder or company CEO, you hear all the time, “You want to hire people ‘smarter than you’”, and you also hear, “Don’t be the smartest person in the room.” But what does…
How Do You Know if You’re Actually Humble?
There are ways to figure out how aware you are of your own limitations—and to cultivate intellectual humility.