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How Intellectuals SHAPE Public Opinion and MISGUIDE the Masses

Dwayne Harapnuik — April 7, 2021 — Leave a comment

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Great video overview of Thomas Sowell’s book Intellectuals and Society. Sowell explains how intellectuals have misguided the public in the past and how they’re still doing it in the present. He also explains why intellectuals feel the need to step into areas where they don’t have enough expertise.

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The Dunning Kruger Effect

Dwayne Harapnuik — March 31, 2021 — 5 Comments

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What it takes to be a great leader

Dwayne Harapnuik — March 24, 2021 — Leave a comment

Rosalinde Torres shares the result of 25 years of observing truly great leaders at work that are summed up in the following three simple but crucial questions:

Where are you looking to anticipate the next change to your business model or life?
Answer – The answer to this question is in your calendar – who are spending time with, what are you doing, what are your reading/learning. Great leaders are collaborating and looking around corners.
What is the diversity measure of your network?
Answer – Consider your capacity to develop relationships with people who are different than you. Having a diverse network is a source of pattern recognition and of potential solutions.
Are you courageous enough to abandon the past?
Answer – Going along to get along leads to failure. Great leaders dare to be different and don’t just talk about risk-taking they do it. People who will join you are usually different from your traditional network.

Torres states that the great leaders of the 21st Century are:

those women & men who are NOT preparing themselves for the comfortable predictability of yesterday but are preparing for the realities of today and all the unknown possibilities of tomorrow.