Distancing: How Great Leaders Reframe to Make Better Decisions

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Distance gives you perspective. Bestselling author of Turn the Ship Around! David Marquet and professor of psychology Michael Gillespie show you how to make better decisions by becoming your own coach. The biggest obstacle to making wiser decisions that actually drive lasting success is ourselves. Being fully immersed in our own limited point of view biases our decisions toward defending our previous actions. We need to exit our me-here-and-now self and get an outside perspective that sees us and the situation we are in objectively. We need a coach. Featuring compelling scientific research, business cases and exercises, Distancing shows us how to how to make better decisions by becoming your own coach through a mental technique called psychological distancing. We do this in three ways- Self-distancing- we can be someone else, inhabiting another's perspective. This activates the neutral observer's outside point of view. Spatial distancing- we can be somewhere else, zooming out and seeing ourselves from afar, as just another person who is part of a larger context. Temporal distancing- we can be sometime else, imagining that we are our future selves who are thinking back to what we wish we had done today. The result is a powerful and immediate reframe of how we see ourselves, our situation and what we should do.

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L. David Marquet (Author) L. David Marquet graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and commanded the nuclear-powered submarine USS Santa Fe. Since retiring from the Navy, he has worked with businesses globally as a leadership consultant and speaks about Intent-Based Leadership around the world. A highly sought-after speaker, his clients include Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, professional sports teams, business schools and governments. He is the bestselling author of Turn the Ship Around! and Leadership Is Language. His books have been translated into 15 languages. Michael Gillespie (Author) Michael A. Gillespie is a psychology professor at the University of South Florida, where he specializes in organizational psychology and directs the Human Applied Cognition and Decision-Making Lab. His widely cited research on psychological measurement, organisational culture, and leadership is published in top business and psychology journals. He earned his BA from the University of South Florida, his MA from Michigan State University, and his PhD from Bowling Green State University.