How to Stop Overthinking Everything

By Harvard Business Review - 2021-02-10

Description

Five tips to save you from yourself.

Summary

  • Deliberation is an admirable and essential leadership quality that undoubtedly produces better outcomes.
  • Put aside perfectionism Perfectionism is one of the biggest blockers to swift, effective decision-making because it operates on faulty all-or-nothing thinking.
  • This automatic process is faster than rational thought, which means intuition is a necessary decision-making tool when time is short and traditional data is not available.
  • Terence, the product lead I mentioned earlier, was so intrigued by the idea of making decisions from his gut that he planned a “Day of Disinhibition” during which he followed his own intuition about everything he said and did for twenty-four hours.

 

Topics

  1. Machine_Learning (0.13)
  2. Management (0.12)
  3. Stock (0.04)

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