"A huge amount of the economy is driven by people who are, simply put, highly suggestible. That is to say that it is very, very easy to get them excited and willing to spend money."

Read more by Nikhil Suresh @ludicity: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwash-an-executive-today/

#executives #saas #scams #leads #AIBubble #impression #marketing #consulting #pitching #decisionMakers #deciding #leaders #bias #leadership #power #decisionMaking #dominance #psychopaths #buying #money #Microsoft #agenticAI

• social dominance is correlated with greater self confidence in #deciding
• extraversion is less correlated with greater self confidence in #deciding
Conversely:
• modesty is correlated with doubt in own decisions
• introversion is also correlated with self doubt
In other words: individuals who report being introvert, coerced or intimidated show low confidence on a statistical learning decision-making task.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886924004975

#leadership #teamWork #decisionMaking #fear #research

“The cost of change from an executive, is completely different from the cost of change from a development team.”
— Jabe Bloom

#rant #innovation #management #workCulture #quotes #teamWork #JabeBloom #consensus #deciding #decisions #decisionMaking #facilitation #leadership #change

• social dominance and extraversion independently correlate to decision-making confidence
• social dominance is twice more correlated to assurance bias than extraversion
• only social dominance (not extraversion) contributes to self confidence in #deciding

(Participants reported no disability, neurological or psychiatric diagnoses. Race or revenues were not considered.)

Belotelova, Martin (2025) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886924004975

#bias #leadership #power #politics #decisionMaking #dominance

#deciding 🧵

Victor Shih argues that the multiple pathways to #power were incentives for policy innovation: a way for would-be top leaders to get noticed, and thus promoted.
#Xi calling most of the shots creates incentives for mid-level cadres to sit on their hands, and wait for signals from Xi himself. Hence a disastrous about-face on Zero Covid - no one could change anything until Xi told them to, and then they rushed to lift almost all restrictions.

#improve #China #politics #decisionMaking