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Daniel Crosby. I like this guy. The presentation below is dead on. It’s a fun walk thru of the same principles that underpin How to Self-Destruct™, except I think he does it even better. Scary stat: 80% of all American households will not buy a single book in any given year. Talk about failing spectacularly. [...]

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Business Decisions

December 9, 2010

Sometimes, it’s not a question of development, learning opportunities, or future planning. Sometimes, it’s not about the people at all. It’s simply a question of what the business can afford, and how it can best apply very limited resources to the myriad issues it needs to solve. When you’ve got a business decision to make, [...]

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Nice job, Laurie. For those of you too engrossed in your Google Readers to follow the link, here’s what you’d learn if you did: my friend Laurie Ruettimann, aka The Cynical Girl (notice the title of this post—clever, huh?) wrote recently about gut instincts. She says following your gut is dangerous if your gut sucks, [...]

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I just finished watching a TED talk with Michael Specter about how the denial of the scientific process is resulting in the resurgence of long-gone diseases, shorter life spans, and greater risk. His point is that there is a difference between skepticism and ignorance, and right now in the world, the latter too often comes [...]

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Intuition. Use It.

April 29, 2010

Intuition. A few years ago, I was subcontracting on a project for which I had to assess a number of partners at a major consulting firm. When I submitted my write up on one of them, the head of the project called me to task for including an a line about the person’s “intuitive” decision [...]

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A look at a manager’s responsibilities, using the story of what happened to one girl who went to the ER for appendicitis.

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Abstract: Why you need to understand risk better, and how to apply it to people decisions.

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