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Dr Kevin Weitz Psy.D. is a business consultant and leadership coach specializing in culture change and organizational transformations. Kevin’s coaching focus is helping leaders navigate change specifically where new leadership behaviors are needed to be successful. He has consulted with companies such as Chevron Corp, Intel Corp, Levi Strauss, Pacific Gas & Electric and British Colombia Hydro amongst others. Kevin is the author of an eBook entitled “The House of Culture” available in Amazon.

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Expertise And Ignorance: We Are All Ignorant—Some of Us Know It and Some Of Us Don’t

By Kevin Weitz
December 30, 2022
in :  Decison Making & Problem Solving
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Kevin Weitz, Psy.D. and William Bergquist, Ph.D. To recognize superior expertise would require people to have already a surfeit of expertise themselves. David Dunning (2012) There is a growing body of knowledge coming out of psychology and cognitive science that you have no clue why you act the way you do. David McRaney (2012) In our previous essay on “the …

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How Lies and Misinformation Undermine Trust in Experts, Leaders and Scientific Facts

By Kevin Weitz
December 29, 2022
in :  Communication
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108

We focus on the psychology of how influential people use language to propagate misinformation and lies for their own benefit and how it is possible that so many people actually believe them.

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Believing or Disbelieving Leaders and Experts – The Dangerous Influence of Conspiracy Theories

By Kevin Weitz
December 29, 2022
in :  Managing Stress & Challenges
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Humans are social beings - people have a strong natural tendency to affiliate with others and have a fundamental need to belong to social groups (Van Prooijen, 2018). This need becomes stronger when there is a perceived threat, such as Covid, terrorism or war.

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Why Do People Behave the Way They Do?

By Kevin Weitz
January 31, 2022
in :  Feedback
6
388

During a leadership coaching or consulting relationship, coaches and consultants will often ponder why their clients behave the way they do, and more importantly, coaches or consultant may struggle with how to shape these behaviors to help clients be more successful. It may appear an obvious and easily answered question, but how many of us deeply understand the factors that …

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A Crisis of Expertise II: Blind Spots and the Role of Coaching

By Kevin Weitz
January 11, 2022
in :  Decison Making & Problem Solving
1
185

Recently, the conservative essayist, Jeff Jacoby, wrote a brief piece entitled “Nobody knows anything.” (Jacobi, 2022). He was commenting on the often-failed prophecies made at the start of 2021 about the upcoming year. Many mistakes were made by the prophets, pundits and experts of 2021 – perhaps more than is usually the case when seeking to predict and plan for …

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The Future of Coaching – helping leaders overcome ignorance, hubris, blind-spots and become more self-aware

By Kevin Weitz
January 11, 2022
in :  Decison Making & Problem Solving
37
450

In my previous essay on “the crisis of expertise”, I not only commented on leadership hubris and over-confidence, but also that many people (especially lay-people in the context of a specific complex topic) are often blatantly ignorant and largely unaware of their ignorance. A phenomenon in our modern digital world, is that information – and misinformation – is rapidly accessible …

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A Crisis of Expertise I: Setting the Stage

By Kevin Weitz
October 21, 2021
in :  Decison Making & Problem Solving
14
267

It is evident that the roles of leaders, particularly in a fast-changing world, and the roles of leaders, advisors, experts and that of lay-people is unclear leading to distrust, rejection and animosity. There is also the broader challenge that is now found in many societies. This is the widespread disbelief in expertise regarding COVID-19 over the past two years.

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A crisis in the rejection of expert knowledge, and the acceptance of “Google-fueled, Wikipedia based, Blog-sodden” information

By Kevin Weitz
October 12, 2021
in :  Decison Making & Problem Solving
25
195

The title “Google-fueled, Wikipedia based, Blog-sodden” is taken from Tom Nichols book entitled “The Death of Expertise”. While this description may be a little over the top, we are living through a period in our history where people are dying (as a result of the Covid pandemic), many of whom could be saved if they followed the advice of medical …

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Interview with Curt Mandell: Coaching, Consulting and the Challenge of Expertise

By Kevin Weitz
October 7, 2021
in :  Executive Coaching
1
244

The following interview conducted by Dr. Kevin Weitz and Dr. William Bergquist with Curt Mandell (a noted organizational coach and consultant) concerns the challenges to be found in the 21st Century workplace regarding the role to be played by experts and the manner in which their expertise is received.   Here are several of the major themes introduced in this …

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The Organizational “House of Culture”

By Kevin Weitz
February 4, 2014
in :  Organizational Theory
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Organizational cultures must be adaptable – the house of culture must be designed to quickly and effectively respond to competitive pressures and opportunities. Shifting organizational culture is possibly the most challenging kind of change any organization can undertake.

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