Forecasting and leader performance: Objective cognition in a socio-organizational context

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Forecasting and leader performance: Objective cognition in a socio-organizational context
The Leadership Quarterly

Traditionally, it has been assumed that leaders, like other people, are typically poor at forecasting. In the present effort, we argue that people can sometimes prove effective at forecasting and that effective forecasting is particularly important to performance in leadership roles. Subsequently, evidence bearing on how four key variables, mental models, objectivity, time frame, and case content, influence the effectiveness of leader forecasting is examined along with interventions that might contribute to effective forecasting on the part of leaders. The implications of these observations for understanding leader cognition are discussed.

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The Leadership Quarterly Volume 26, Issue 3, June 2015, Pages 359–369

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