Leadership Lessons from The Walking Dead: 3rd Annual Edition

Oct. 17, 2016 - PRLog -- Another season of AMC's The Walking Dead is about to begin and with it brings more sleepless nights. TV and movies don't typically permeate my psyche (despite my recent obsession with Happyish), but through excellent storytelling Rick and his band of hapless apocalyptic survivors provide weeks of angst. Its not the gore or the zombies, but the obsessive self-probing where I cannot help but ask myself what I would have done in similar situations. As you might expect, many of these questions involve ways we can be a better leader.

Suppress Your Overconfidence

Throughout season six, Rick displayed bolstering assurances that his past victories would ensure future success. He and his crew escaped from the farm; bested the Woodbury sadists, the Terminus cannibals, the Claimers biker gang, and the predatory Wolves; and have plowed through thousands of zombies. So when he found himself up against a new adversary, the Saviors, it was viewed as just another speedbump on the trek towards stability in Alexandria. Rick could not have been more wrong...

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