Ben Franklin devised an ingeniously simple tool for managing the tradeoffs inherent in any complex decision.
How to avoid group think and achieve the wisdom of the crowd
Every day in organizations, groups meet to make decisions. Here are four simple ways to help them avoid group think and achieve the wisdom of the crowd.
Visionize a preferred future
Feel trapped by the circumstances or challenges you face? Need to reinvent your life? Solve a persistent problem? Renew a relationship? Visionizing is a powerful thinking technique designed to elicit transformative strategies and actions. Visionize and create your future!
Open Your Feedback Loop
The habit of seeking and acting on feedback is essential to good thinking, effective problem solving and high performance.
What Google learned about high performing teams
Google recently devoted considerable resources to determine what makes a high-performing team. What did they discover?
Luck
Only sheer hubris would dismiss the role of luck – good or bad – in each of our lives.
How to: cost-benefit analysis
Completing a cost-benefit analysis takes time and effort. But it’s always wise to do one when making a weighty decision requiring a significant investment.
John King, the Common Core and cognitive bias
It’s pretty clear that New York State Commission of Education John King is one of the nation’s top advocates for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. It’s also becoming increasingly apparent that he may be doing more to undermine the implementation of the Common Core than he is doing to support it. For […]
Haiti, Camus, the Surgeon
Albert Camus’ The Plague and a surgeon’s decision to drop everything and go to Haiti.
How to: Completing a tradeoff analysis
There are many approaches to completing a formal analysis of trade-offs. This post will summarize two.