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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

12/15/2015 by Sean Brady

Can we add Tech Blindness to the list of cognitive biases?

Cognitive biases are insidious precisely because they are unconscious. So insidious that you make a really bad decision and not realize it for years.

Filed Under: Biases & Fallacies Tagged With: biases, mental models

09/21/2015 by Sean Brady

Readings in Decision-making

Four books on decision-making that I consider ?must read.”

Filed Under: Readings Tagged With: assumptions, biases, decision criteria, decision-making, mental models

04/20/2015 by Sean Brady

Improving your leadership team’s decision-making

Decision-making is a key leadership skill. But leaders rarely if ever receive decision-making training. Prism now offers hands-on training in the Eight Keys to Better Decision-making.

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

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

02/02/2015 by Sean Brady

Image Quilts

Edward Tufte has invented the image quilt. You can make your own image quilts using a free Google Chrome plugin. The possible applications, especially in an educational or creative setting, are endless.

Filed Under: Simply fascinating Tagged With: biases, creativity skills, databases, mental models, visualization

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

09/11/2013 by Sean Brady

Does making things easy impair creativity?

Does making things easy impair creativity? Research suggests that complicating things can improve our ability to understand them.

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: creativity skills, decision-making, mental models

11/08/2012 by Sean Brady

Putting on the Blinders of Partisan Bias

With the election behind the nation, there is now urgency to achieve bi-partisan agreement that prevents sequestration and the so-called fiscal cliff. Clear thinking and sound decision-making will require that we all avoid putting on the blinders of partisan bias.

Filed Under: Biases & Fallacies Tagged With: biases, decision-making, mental models, metacognition

03/22/2011 by Sean Brady

Reduce stress! Become more creative in three steps

Reduce your stress! Discover three strategies to help you face life’s challenges with a creative worldview. See differently, tame your fear and build social networks based on familiarity and reputation. Learn to navigate life’s quick waters with greater dexterity and joy at https://prismdecision.com/become-more-creative-in-three-steps

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: biases, consensus, creative problem solving, creativity skills, fear, idea generation, implementation, innovation, mental models, risk-taking, visionizing, visualization

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