#10: Heroism Bias
“Prevention is better than cure”. This is an old adage but we are obsessed with problem solving rather than problem prevention. Why? Because that is more sexy.
But a good leader is someone who steers the ship around an iceberg than hitting it. Yet we make a hero out of the person who, after hitting the ship in the iceberg puts his life on the line and saves all the passengers.
We should be careful of this ‘Herosim bias’.
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