HOW DO LEADERS THINK?

INTUITION
Meaning: A natural ability, feeling or power that makes it possible to know
something without any proof or evidence; quick and ready insight; a sixth
sense (Meriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary)
Rationality and intuition; consciousness and unconsciousness. We need both
to make the best possible decision; we are unique human beings.
Three ways to listen to the internal voice:
1. Write your thoughts and feelings down on your journal
2. Turn off your inner critic
3. Find a solitary place to allow your emotions (Cholle, 2011)
 THE BIG PICTURE (1)

Are you a big picture or a details thinker or both?

A big picture thinker: creative, strategic, and visionary, but messy,
disorganized, forgetful.
A details thinker: conscientious, planful, and exacting, but lack of perspective
or fail to prioritize.
These two types tend to complement each other.
Do you think the CEO is a big picture thinker and the COO and CFO are the
details thinkers?
 THE BIG PICTURE (2)

The big picture thinker:

1. Can see patterns in complex problems.
2. Likes to come up with new ideas and projects.
3. Has a low tolerance for busy work, tedious errands, and feeling
out forms.
4. Is great at outlining what needs to be done but feeling in
details can feel exhausting.
5. May have been described as right-brained.
6. Use intuition frequently.
 THE BIG PICTURE (3)

The details thinker:

1. Thinks about things in great detail and sometimes miss the big picture.
2. Is considered by others as lacking of common sense.
3. Would prefer to edit or tweak a plan than to come up with it from scratch.
4. Overthink things.
5. Has excellent attention to details
6. May have been described as left brained.
7. Use sensing a lot.
 ASKING DIFFICULT QUESTIONS
Examples: job transfer, teamwork engagement, termination, quitting the
current job, etc.
one of the worst things you do on a sensitive situation is to come in
unprepared to understand how to ask difficult questions.
Research the topic of the question by using reference materials.
Design a two column table an a piece of paper. On the left table, give the
heading "pros". On the right table, "cons". Fill in each table with what you
perceive to be the consequences of asking the question. Contemplate. If there
are more "cons" than "pros", then it may not be time to ask questions
(Root III, 2015)