Fundamental Leadership Traps with Dr. John Austin | The Good Leadership Podcast #27

Dr. John Austin is the P.D. Merrill Endowed Chair of Business. Prior to joining University of New England, Dr. Austin was a professor in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University. He has also worked as a Principal at Decision Strategies International and as a Management Professor at Penn State.  

Dr. Austin's research has been published in leading management and applied psychology journals such as Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organization Science as well as practice-oriented publications including HR Magazine, Fast Company, and The OD Practitioner.  

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:56 Definition of Unquestioned Brilliance

03:52 College sports example

07:54 Frames

09:47 Frame breaking and frame triggering

10:25 Eureka and the hardest part of the innovation process

14:15 Shifting the frame of thinking

16:00 Overconfidence

19:13 Learning and studying

20:15 Overconfidence traps

21:37 Social vs. cognitive overconfidence

22:41 We forget what we used to not know

24:16 Ten techniques to overcome Unquestioned Brilliance

27:14 Uncertainty vectoring

29:59 Backward forward flip

33:00 Stakeholder analysis

33:39 Tension tracking

35:53 Overcoming this fundamental leadership trap

36:51 Conclusion