Encyclopedia of Leadership

464 SECTION 15 TOOLS FORTAKINGCARE OFYOURSELF

Act on conclusions

Draw conclusions based

on your beliefs

Make assumptions

Make sense and add

meaning

Select data

The data (your

experience)

Looking back, can you trace your ladder of inference? Where did you go offtrack?

On what basis did you draw your conclusions? What is the basis for your conclusions

in general?

In hindsight, what assumptions did you make? Do you make these types of assump-

tions regularly? Which of your assumptions now seem unwarranted?

Of the data you selected, how did you make sense of it? In hindsight, how did you

add your own spin to this experience?

Of all the data available, what did you select to focus on? On what basis did you

select this data? In hindsight, what did you miss?

What you saw, heard, and felt. In retrospect, what did you miss?