Mind Games: The perilous pendulum of imposter syndrome and illusionary superiority!
Do you think you are a good driver? Research shows that when we are asked about driving ability, parking ability or even ability to text while driving, the vast majority of us believe we are better at it than the average person. Of course, this can't be true, we can't all be better than the average and therefore it has been called the illusionary superiority bias.
I'm wondering if it's the same with leadership performance. Do we think that we would be better leaders than those who are leading us? Do we think that we are leading our own people better than our peers?
How does that fit with imposter syndrome though? Our well reported beliefs and biases that we're not as good as we should be or not as good as others. But we can't all be worse than the average either!
Without leadership performance analysis, we are likely to be dangerously bouncing between imposter syndrome and illusionary superiority bias. Leadership is hard enough without these unhelpful and distracting narratives.
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