Business mistakes to avoid—Learn strategies to shift from an obligation to an opportunity mindset, guiding leaders through the business mistakes to avoid.

Believe it or not, cognitive science can help us make better business decisions and know the business mistakes to avoid. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is a behavioral economist and cognitive neuroscientist who is an expert at helping business owners recognize and overcome their internal “cognitive biases.” 

In this episode of Onward Nation, Dr. Tsipursky explains the science of decision-making and shares how our tribal instincts often lead us to make the wrong “gut decisions.” 

He outlines a realistic timeline of the global pandemic and shares tips and strategies for better judgment and taking the right risks while avoiding the wrong ones so that your business can navigate the pandemic and come roaring out the other side.

What you’ll learn in this episode is about business mistakes to avoid: 

• How Dr. Gleb’s family life as a child informed his decision to study the behavioral science of risk-taking and decision-making in his career
• How Dr. Gleb’s work lies in helping business owners identify and recognize the negative patterns within their decision-making processes that lead to business mistakes
• How the “gut instincts” humans developed during our tribal stage of evolution often conflicts with the decisions we have to make in our modern world
• Dr Gleb will share the guides for business mistakes to avoid
• How our tribal instincts sometimes lead us to unfounded cognitive biases that lead us to make decisions that make little sense for our businesses
• Why entrepreneurs often lean toward “optimism bias”, and how that optimism bias can negatively impact their decision-making and risk-taking
• What steps entrepreneurs can take to avoid making decisions based on optimism bias, and what key five questions you should ask yourself to make decisions more effectively
• Why resilience is the key to dealing with the long-term, lasting effects of the global pandemic and the chaos it has brought to business owners
• Why the ongoing global pandemic is the “new abnormal”, and why our lives will likely be disrupted for as long as seven years until we’re back to normal again
• Why the logistics of the vaccines currently in development mean that even once a vaccine is created it will take a long time to deploy to a critical mass of the population

Resources:

• Learn more about what are the business mistakes to avoid, and you can find Dr. Gleb here
• Never Go With Your Gut by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
• Resilience by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-gleb-tsipursky/
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/disaster-avoidance-experts/
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/DrGlebTsipursky/
• Twitter: @Gleb_Tsipursky
• Free 8 video-based module course in decision-making and business mistakes to avoid

Additional Resources:

• Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
• Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
• Stephen Woessner’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/