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By: The power of self examination for managers | Managing Leadership | Managing Leadership

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:39:41 +0000

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By: Overestimation of competence isn't limited to the incompetent | Managing Leadership | Managing Leadership

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:29:27 +0000

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By: The implications of how incompetent people are preceived by themselves and their managers | Managing Leadership | Managing Leadership

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:27:00 +0000

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By: The effect of a self confident leader on an organization | Managing Leadership

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:52:49 +0000

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By: The core rationale of management is to accomplish organizational goals | Managing Leadership

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:03:25 +0000

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By: Why too much self-confidence is really a key to incompetence | Managing Leadership

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:54:21 +0000

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By: We can never really be sure who or when someone is being smart or stupid | Managing Leadership

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:04:13 +0000

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By: The importance of understanding the issues behind the topic at hand | Managing Leadership

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:46:30 +0000

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By: You attitude toward your work is more predictive of your ability than standard measures of competence | Managing Leadership

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:32:16 +0000

[...] While reviewing the second corollary, we saw that Socrates adopted a peculiar attitude - the profession of ignorance - to force himself to reject glibly offered assumptions; rather, he re-subjected them to questioning in order to ensure he understood them. As it happens, he usually discovered in the process that they had fatal flaws, casting into doubt the beliefs and practices that were built upon them. [...]

By: The Socratic method as a tool both for teaching and learning | Managing Leadership

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:02:21 +0000

[...] Clearly, then, Socrates was not a Socratic genius - that’s how he described the sort of people who hardly know what they know, and who don’t really know at all most of what they think they know. He, on the other hand, had a very precise and intimate knowledge of what he knew - and what he didn’t know. And he developed that by assuming that he was ignorant of the truth in the first place, and that the representations of it foisted on him by others or by society were unreliable. [...]