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5 Steps to Protect Your Career As We Turn Toward Recovery The economy is reopening, so make sure you're not closed off to these survival strategies.

By Gleb Tsipursky

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Due to the devastating impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the restaurant industry, one of my coaching clients, Alex, an entrepreneurial executive who served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) in a regional chain of 24 diners in the Northeast, wanted to explore switching to a different industry.

Alex turned to me as her executive coach and asked for my guidance in early March, before the lockdown fully took hold. I recommended a five-step decision-making process that addresses the dangerous judgment errors we make called cognitive biases, which devastate our decision-making in both our professional and personal life. And now I'm going to share them with you.

Step 1: Gather information from a wide variety of informed perspectives