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Understanding the importance of decision-making
Identifying biases that affect decision-making
Analyzing the potential outcomes of a decision
Hearing only agreement
Pessimists are good role models for those who are "yes men".
If you only have around you people that agree with you, you are being set up for failure.
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Unprepared for the downside
Optimists often fail to have a Plan B because they believe they can control all the elements within Plan A.
Pessimists can alert a team regarding the risks that would require a Plan B.
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Identifying problems
Optimists tend to avoid difficult conversations and this could lead them to miss the opportunity of addressing critical issues.
Pessimists inherently look for the problems more than the solutions. Pessimists are the ones who will see a problem and won't hesitate to share it with you...
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Only invite brains
Every organization consists of 2 general types of people:
- a) those who agree with the boss all the time and
- b) those who have their own ideas and opinions.
The Yes-men and Yes-women only spout regurgitated pap, so don't invite them.
Only One Single Time
- In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.
- One single time and you are set for life. That’s the beauty of the business world.
- With every mistake and failure (not only mine, but also of those around me), I learned what not to do.
The first range of pessimists
- The closet pessimists view historical progress as coincidence but think low growth or stagnation is more likely.
- Next are the sceptics. They agree that progress is likely, but question the validity of the data or if something is missing.
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