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Who was your favorite manager and why?

Who was your favorite manager and why?

Fairness, no politics, approachable, encouragement, creativity...bring out how you could work productively under different bosses.
Now tell about qualities of favorite boss i.e. he allowed freedom, no micro management etc. He brought the best in you and challenged you to deliver more and better.
Bring out their positive attributes e.g listening, skills which shaped you in a better and positive way.
Do's
• Talk about what you learnt from different bosses
• Talk about coaching and mentoring skills
• Talk about how you performed better under his supervision
Don'ts
• Do not talk about personal favoritism
• He was my buddy
• He protected me from others.
• No criticism
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• Who was your best and worst manager and why?
• What do you think of your previous boss? 
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The mistakes we make in our everyday life

• 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