Perception, deception, or misconception?

The Busyness Paradox

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is your next performance evaluation. Everyone sees the world through their own perceptual lenses and we often form different perceptions of the same people, performance, and policies. Join us as we discuss strategies for managing these perceptions in the workplace - our own and those of the people we work with.
Topics Discussed and Related Readings:
1:15 - Perceptual biases in management
5:00 - Different social-perceptual biases
7:50 - Pessimistic attribution styles
7:55 - Different forms of narcissism
10:00 - Examples of tools to offset perceptual biases at work:

• Harvard Business Review: Outsmart Your Own Biases
• Deloitte Insights: Mitigating bias in performance management

11:15 - Watch bezels
14:50 - Travel to find your biases
22:00 - More than 40% of managers that are sent abroad fail
26:15 - Busyness Paradox Episode #15: Who You Callin' WUSI?

Come visit us at busynessparadox.com to see episode transcripts, blog posts and other content while you’re there!

פרקים

1. It’s all perceptions (00:01:05)

2. Self-Serving Biases (00:06:10)

3. Perceptions and Performance Evaluations (00:09:15)

4. Perceptions and Product design (00:11:10)

5. Travel (00:14:50)

6. Perceptions of management (00:25:00)

7. Busyness and Perception Management (00:28:30)