Good Judgment and the Coronavirus

Parsing out the elements of good judgment is helpful in allowing leaders to improve when they’re using it and when they’re not.  In The Elements of Good Judgment – How to improve your decision-making by Sir Andrew Likierman (Jan-Feb 2020 Harvard Business Review), he states that “leaders with good judgment tend to be good listeners and readers.  They are able to hear what other people actually mean, and thus able to see patterns that others do not.”

The six elements of good judgment Likierman points out bear mentioning:

1. Learning, by listening attentively and reading critically
2. Trust, by seeking diversity, not validation
3. Experience while recognizing that, if narrowly based, it can be dangerous
4. Detachment by identifying and then challenging biases
5. Options by questioning the solutions offered to solve a problem
6. Delivery by thinking through the feasibility of execution on a solution.

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