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03/25/2019 by Sean Brady

How to serve ice cream to your kids and other negotiation strategies

Every day we are faced with the potential for conflict. Lose-lose battles are unnecessary, if the parties have access to simple negotiation strategies.

Filed Under: Consensus-building Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, negotiation, tradeoff

11/16/2018 by Sean Brady

Can groups make better decisions than smart individuals?

Research at MIT has identified three factors that correlate to a group’s collective intelligence.

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

08/01/2017 by Sean Brady

Google identifies the five traits of high performing teams

Google has identified five traits shared by high performing teams. They have also made available their Team Effectiveness Discussion Guide as well as a tool for fostering psychological safety.

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

12/22/2016 by Sean Brady

Tolerance for ambiguity

Successful problem solving requires tolerance for ambiguity.

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: ambiguity, creative problem solving, creativity skills

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

05/26/2016 by Sean Brady

Errors are portals of discovery

Effective problem solving and decision-making requires that we embrace risk and accept our errors as portals of discovery.

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, feedback, risk-taking

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

02/23/2015 by Sean Brady

Review of “Eight Keys to Better Decision-making”

“While books like Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow bring theoretical ideas to a mass audience … You Are What You Decide takes a big step towards real-world decision-making showing how anyone can improve their decision-making by adopting a few simple behaviors.”
– Andrew Tait, Chief Technology Officer, Decision Mechanics

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Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: assumptions, biases, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, idea generation, implementation, innovation, mental models, tradeoff, visionizing

07/17/2014 by Sean Brady

Make better decisions now

“You Are What You Decide is a concise book that distills complex ideas into a straightforward, highly readable framework.”
– Sherm Bodner, President and Publisher, Gannett Central New York Media

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Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: assumptions, biases, cost-benefit, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision criteria, decision-making, innovation, mental models, multiple criteria, risk-taking, tradeoff, visionizing, You Are What You Decide

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