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.
How to: Multi-criteria Analysis – Part 3
This is the final of a three-part post that walks step-by-step through a multi-criteria analysis, a formal decision process you might use when making a weighty decision. At https://prismdecision.com/how-to-multi-criteria-analysis-part-3
How to: Multi-criteria Analysis – Part 2
This is the second of a three-part post that walks step-by-step through a multi-criteria analysis, a formal decision process you might use when making a weighty decision. At https://prismdecision.com/how-to-multi-criteria-analysis-part-2
How to: Multi-criteria Analysis – Part 1
So, how do you decide? Based on your gut intuition, a formal analysis of trade-offs, your core beliefs, multiple criteria, the alignment to your vision for a preferred future? Or something else? This three-part post will walk step-by-step through a multi-criteria analysis, a formal decision process you might use when making a weighty decision. At https://prismdecision.com/how-to-multi-criteria-analysis-part-1