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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A look at a manager’s responsibilities, using the story of what happened to one girl who went to the ER for appendicitis.
Abstract: Why you need to understand risk better, and how to apply it to people decisions.
Big picture, conceptual, strategic thinking is NOT knowing Porter’s 5 Forces. It’s not having an MBA, and it’s not being invited to a strategic meeting… Strategic thinking is thinking on a conceptual plane… Strategic thinkers can see things that aren’t there… yet. They can envision a different world from the one that exists, based on extrapolation as opposed to pure imagination.
If I differentiate strategic thinking from conceptual thinking, it’s to distinguish those who can merely think the big thoughts from those who can also see how to implement them.
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