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Which is more important: creativity or efficiency?

Which is more important: creativity or efficiency?

The interviewer wants to see your preference.
Do you like creating, designing or detailed instructions kind of work? You should answer this question from the perspective of role or job you are being interviewed for and the company values. Everyone of us needs to be creative as well as efficient.
Do's
• Show flexibility as both matter
• Fine tune the answer in line with job requirements, company values and the position
• Share an example suitable to your answer
Don'ts
• I only like creativity
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• We are hardwired to make these mistakes • Few biases are simply evolutionary • These errors affect all of us including the bright ones • Experience is just not enough to overcome • but expertise is required to recognize and overcome

Few of biases as below · Anchoring - When an individual depends too heavily on an initial piece of information during decision making · Fixed pie - When we assume that our interests conflict with the other party's interests and we play adversarial · Framing - When we decide on our options differently when the options are presented with positive or negative connotations · Vividness – When we pay attention to strong features at the expense of less, that could be more impactful · Over confidence – When our subjective confidence is greater than the objective accuracy · Escalation – When initial decision is followed up with an irrational decision to justify the initial decision

Few ways to mitigate these biases are · Learn to recognize the bias · Use slow, effortful and logical thinking (System 2) · Avoid fast, automatic and effortless thinking (System 1) · Avoid negotiations which are thrust upon when not ready · Learn through use of stories, examples, exercises · Bring an outsider perspective