The Courage to Lead through collaborative Decision making
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Claim: collaborative decision making reduces catastrophic errors — airlines’ crew resource training improves safety more in the last 20 years than other tech advances — and it works best for strategic, complex, or high‑value decisions. Use structured methods: Double Diamond for diverge/converge, workshops with prework, affinity diagramming and prioritization in Miro and sticky notes, then prototype and test. Avoid faux‑workshops where one voice dominates; if a decision is already made, call a meeting to inform; invite people with domain context, not just managers.
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- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:25About myself and Alex Software
- 3:54My leadership journey and imposter syndrome
- 6:01Why traditional leadership fails today
- 7:47Collaborative decision making explained
- 9:13When collaboration works best
- 11:41Workshops as collaborative tools
- 12:43Three real-world leadership lessons
- 14:51Lesson one: Avoid hidden agendas
- 15:14Lesson two: True workshops vs. fake ones
- 17:22Lesson three: Invite the right people
- 19:18The courage to lead collaboratively
- 20:00Vulnerability as a leadership strength
- 21:03Confidence through admitting flaws
- 21:46Building a collaborative culture
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