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The Power of Reflection: Using Past Mistakes To Make Smarter Decisions


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We rarely want to spend time and mental energy revisiting the past — particularly if it involves reflecting on uncomfortable missteps. We often want to move quickly, telling ourselves that speed equals efficiency. True efficiency, however, sometimes requires slowing down, being mindful and especially looking back at the decisions we’ve made that didn’t go as we’d hoped.

Join Cheryl Einhorn, an adjunct professor at Cornell Tech, for a discussion of using your past decisions as a dataset you can mine for insights to make better future decisions.

What You'll Learn

  • How to use past decisions as a dataset that you can mine for insights
  • How to turn insight into action
  • Strategies to shift your behavior going forward

The Cornell Keynotes podcast is brought to you by eCornell, which offers more than 200 online certificate programs to help professionals advance their careers and organizations. Learn more in our Complex Decision-Making certificate program, authored by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn.

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