The article was originally published in the Harvard Business Review France: “Intuition, the benefits of emotional intelligence in professional life” Our intuition, powerful and uncontrollable, constantly processes a huge amount of data. But can we trust it? It all depends on the cognitive biases we have accumulated, without realizing it,
Unconscious biases generally refer to social attitudes and beliefs Unconscious biases impact our perceptions, attitudes and actions about groups of people. In fact, biases can be favorable for some people and unfavorable for others. In other words, they can lead us to favor some individuals that display the attributes we
Home bias is a cognitive bias that increases the risk of investments and reduces their profitability. Domestic bias is a tendency to develop preferences for investments in assets close to us, such as the country where we live or sectors in which we operate. For example, if we are in
With Jane Fraser being appointed as the new head of Citygroup, more and more women are taking charge of the US banking sector. Jane Fraser is the first woman to lead such a large bank in the United States, despite the fact that 40% of financial institution employees are female.