351| The Gut Instinct Myth: Why the Thing You Trust Most Might Be the Thing Most Worth Examining- Leadership Myth #3

About this episode

Tami Imlay challenges the belief of 'trust your gut' in leadership, exploring how instincts can be misleading.

The calls that used to feel clean have started feeling heavier. Not because your instincts are failing — because the signal has static in it. In this episode, Executive Leadership Strategist and Advisor Tami Imlay goes after one of leadership’s most sacred beliefs and names why ”trust your gut” means something completely different depending on how you are wired. Week three of the Leadership Myths series. The distinction in this episode changes how every decision lands after this one.

People in this episode

Host: Tami Imlay

Topics covered

• leadership
• decision making
• instincts
• myths
• self-awareness

Keywords

• leadership myths
• gut instinct
• decision making
• self-awareness
• trust

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