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02/07/2017 by Sean Brady

Ben Franklin’s tradeoff tool

Ben Franklin devised an ingeniously simple tool for managing the tradeoffs inherent in any complex decision.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: decision criteria, decision-making, tradeoff

11/28/2016 by Sean Brady

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.

Filed Under: Consensus-building, Decision-making Tagged With: assumptions, biases, consensus, creative problem solving, decision-making

07/21/2016 by Sean Brady

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!

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: assumptions, biases, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, mental models, visionizing

06/21/2016 by Sean Brady

Open Your Feedback Loop

The habit of seeking and acting on feedback is essential to good thinking, effective problem solving and high performance.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, feedback

05/06/2016 by Sean Brady

What Google learned about high performing teams

Google recently devoted considerable resources to determine what makes a high-performing team. What did they discover?

Filed Under: Consensus-building, Decision-making Tagged With: consensus, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, idea generation

05/12/2014 by Sean Brady

Luck

Only sheer hubris would dismiss the role of luck – good or bad – in each of our lives.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, visionizing

11/19/2013 by Sean Brady

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.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: cost-benefit, decision-making, matrix, multiple criteria, tradeoff

11/14/2013 by Sean Brady

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 […]

Filed Under: Decision-making, NCLB & ESSA accountability Tagged With: biases, Common Core, decision-making, fallacies

09/27/2012 by Sean Brady

Haiti, Camus, the Surgeon

Albert Camus’ The Plague and a surgeon’s decision to drop everything and go to Haiti.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: decision criteria, decision-making

07/08/2011 by Sean Brady

How to: Completing a tradeoff analysis

There are many approaches to completing a formal analysis of trade-offs. This post will summarize two.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: decision criteria, decision-making, matrix, multiple criteria, tradeoff

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