9 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Leadership
Have you ever thought of yourself as an unfair or a biased leader? Most people would have answered “no”. A lot of people actually consider themselves as fair and reasonable leaders. Yet, we all have to admit that it is hard to see things objectively, especially when our beliefs and perspectives are so deeply ingrained. Whether we accept it or not, we all have our biases – even the best leaders. These biases are essentially attitudes or stereotypes accumulated throughout your life that can influence the way you make decisions, the way you deal with conflict, interact with people, and so on. These biases often lead to unfair assessments based on faulty rationale. As humans, we are programmed to respond positively to those whom we perceive to be similar to us and negatively (consciously or unconsciously) to those whom we perceive to be too different to “fit in” with our group. Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, discovered that the majority of...