How Effective Thinking Habits Help Leaders to Be More Effective

Seeber‐Quayle, who has a wide‐ranging background as an organizational coach and an insurance professional, writes that to achieve behavior change, we need “a way that helps us interrupt our automatic thinking and form effective thinking habits.” All of this is happening in our VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) world, which has already become more of what futurist Jamais Cascio describes as a BANI world—brittle, anxious, non‐linear, and incomprehensible. One strategy to cultivate such effective thinking habits is the KUBA Pilot Strategy. It is a “systematic approach to directing our thinking through four key checkpoints: Know Yourself, Understand Others, Build Connections, and Align Decisions.” The figure describes these four as in her words: (1) My why. My what. My Needs. (2) Their why. Their what. Their needs. (3) Connecting people. Connecting details. Common denominators. (4) Big picture. Consequences. Long‐term strategy. Seeber‐Quayle says that “by regularly using the checkpoints of the KUBA Pilot Strategy when solving problems or working towards objectives, the brain eventually forms new pathways.” She concludes that “the development of effective thinking habits strengthens self‐confidence, helps grow emotional intelligence, and cultivates critical thinking.”