After retiring from the world of professional poker, University of Pennsylvania alumna Annie Duke is now helping leaders in the corporate sphere learn how to lead even better, writes Bruce Horovitz for the Investor’s Business Daily.
Duke is the only woman to win the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship and the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. During her time at the poker table, she figured out an unusual strategy that helped her rack up more wins: doubling down on luck.
Now she has taken that leadership acumen and is applying it in her new job as a consultant, speaker, and author in the decision-making space.
As a corporate consultant, Duke, whose book Thinking in Bets became a bestseller, is sharing with senior executives the same cognitive behavioral skills she used to dominate poker tournaments. Key among them is to focus solely on the things you can control and ignore those you cannot.
“Otherwise, you end up getting emotional about things you can’t control,” she said.
One of the other things Duke advises is to find out what all team members think about an issue by asking them before a meeting, and then using the meeting to come to a consensus on those opinions.
“All of the judgment and opinion discovery should take part outside of the meeting,” she said.
Read more about Annie Duke in the Investor’s Business Daily.
_____
