KNOWLEDGE Hub

Leading Lotus strives to be an innovation center, providing progressive research, articles and case studies to organizations. The intention of the Knowledge section is to pull together the collective brain power and core experiences of key individuals across industries, eras and continents. We hope to deliver a unique base of content centered around providing businesses and individuals with greater clarity and sustainable solutions.

Articles

Ethical Leadership

The word leader is misleading. If you are a sailor on a mountain or a mountaineer on a sailboat, will you be leading any differently?

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Decision Effectiveness

Everyone thinks that they are making good decisions when doing so. Nobody actively chooses to take disastrous choices except for some who are battling mental stress.

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Corporate Alignment

Organizations always operate as if they are a mechanical institution with emotionless protocols and a buffet of bureaucracy when in reality, it is an ecosystem with a delicate balance of design and culture.

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Breaking Biases

Being human and effective may not be complimentary, especially as you think how flawed our perceptions and assumptions can be.

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Using Data Responsibly and Intuition Intelligently

Intuition is a crucial component of our human cognitive capacity, both professionally and personally. Combining it with data is even more powerful.

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Leading from the Mud and Beyond: About the Lotus

In existence for over 135 million years, the Lotus grows in the murkiest of muck, rising above the water with giant, pristine and showy leaves and flowers.

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Welcome to Leading Lotus

Leading Lotus aspires to cultivate sound and purposeful business directives for companies striving for long-term, sustainable and responsible growth.

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Surveys & Tools

BRAIN MYTHS VS. FACTS

Intuition is a crucial component of our human cognitive capacity, both professionally and personally. Combining it with data is even more powerful.

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DECISION MAKING STYLE - PART 1

People import their general styles into decision making in any situation they are faced with. Understand your cognitive response so you can limit your pitfalls, biases and harness your mind's strengths.

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DECISION MAKING STYLE - PART 2

Take this survey to understand how you make decisions. Decision styles change over time or from decision to decision. Being aware of our common traits help to perfect our styles while eliminating the noise in the decision making process.

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KNOW YOUR BIASES - CHAPTER 1

Understanding how cognitive bias works will allow you to take advantage of triggers and act quickly, create explanations or meaning, make sense of large amounts of information, and determine what’s important to recall.

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KNOW YOUR BIASES - CHAPTER 2

We all generally make meaning out of everything to hold value in our lives. How we process situations, events and information depends on how it impacts this deep need for meaning. In this survey we explore the effects of our need to know and make meaning of everything.

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KNOW YOUR BIASES - CHAPTER 3

It's easy to get appalled at how naturally biased we humans are, with our 180+ types of bias triggers in our thinking process. In this chapter, we explore the effects of our need to be constantly right and right, right now

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KNOW YOUR BIASES - CHAPTER 4

In this last chapter, we'll focus on the need to remember. This need can make our minds play tricks on us. If you feel like you are losing your memory, sometimes it's our mind that chooses what to remember.

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ANALYTICS GAP ASSESSMENT

Take this assessment to question yourself about the data or analysis you are constantly relying on in order to better understand any limitations on analytics and hence decision making.

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REQUIREMENTS ASSESSMENT

There are a lot of consulting models and process to diagnose your requirement. However, most management approach miss out asking the hard questions to understand what the question itself is. Leading Lotus has developed in-depth methods to guide clients to clarity.

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GUIDE: HOW LEADING LOTUS CAN HELP

Whether you are seeking to make decisions for a large scale strategy or a small impact project, Leading Lotus can be essential to your requirements for achieving clarity in a variety of important business areas.

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GUIDE: POLARITY IN DECISION STYLE

Leading Lotus has adapted the Polarity Management Tool by PACT™ , to demonstrate how there are two interdependent, diametrically opposed, right answers, using either gut instincts or deliberate rationalization, with negative impacts if not managed properly.

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ABOUT OUR EXPERIENCE AND ASSETS

This downloadable document provides more information About the Founder, Selected Client and Industry Experiences, Company Assets and Tools, Our Assessments, Collaborations and Alliances.

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ABOUT THE COMPANY

This downloadable document provides more information about the Leading Lotus Story, Methodology and Client Experience.

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News & Events

Leading Lotus colloboration with Colorado Leadership Foundation And Alliance Summit

The Colorado Leadership Alliance unites leadership programs from across Colorado with Mentor Walk

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HR Coaching Interview of Uma Gopaldass ABOUT COMPANY CULTURE AND HIRING PRACTISES

HOW TO FORTIFY YOUR COMPANY CULTURE WITH UMA GOPALDASS OF LEADING LOTUS

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Uma speaks at Moxie Event "Breaking Biases - Conquering your cognitive defaults"

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Uma Gopaldass Clears the Way for Intelligent Decision Making

Leading Lotus guides clients through their choices — picking apart their biases, fears, and interpretations of data to clear the way for intelligent and unbiased decision making.

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Uma Sponsors TEDxMileHigh Heroes Program: Wonder Event

TedTalk Mile High's WONDER event assembles the most fascinating people in town for seminars and other interactive experiences.

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Uma Inducted into VIP Woman of the Year Circle

The National Association of Professional Women (NAPW) honors Uma Gopaldass as a 2017-2018 inductee into its VIP Woman of the Year Circle. She is recognized with this prestigious distinction for leadership in entrepreneurship.

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Daniels Business School Dean's Society Reception

Uma attended the annual Daniels Dean's Society Reception last week honoring the support, generosity and service of alumni to the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.

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Leading Lotus presents International Trade to StudentS of Manning School of Academics

The Manning School of Academics and Arts recieved a day of support from Uma as the speaker of International Trade to their 6th Graders

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DENVER METRO Chamber Of Commerce

Uma will be apart of the February 2018 Gold Member Alliance Program (GMAP) offered exclusively through the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce to Gold level members to build strong relationships and share business best practices.

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