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Overcome your defensive side to generate higher productivity

Overcome your defensive side to generate higher productivity

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Overcome your defensive side to generate higher productivity

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- As leaders, it's tempting for us to create a world in which we're perfect. We can choose partners, friends, hire people who make us feel faultless at all times. We can always pretend to have answers. The question, however, would be, how would we then find constructive criticism that can support our growth? It's an unfortunate fact that we find many defensive routines inside organizations because a defensive mindset is by nature self-protective and self-deceptive. In a defensive mindset, individuals or groups only seek out information that protect them. Truth can be shut out when it's seen as threatening. As a result, decisions may be made on false assumptions. When people become victim to such interpersonal interactions, it creates a need for them to close up and protect self from embarrassment and threat. This sort of behavior actually shrinks individual and collective performance. A productive mindset, on the other hand, create opportunities for reasoning. It provides a natural…

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