Importance Of Conflict in Business Decision-Making Processes
Posted on15 Jun 2020
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It’s simple. Conflict improves decisions except when it does not. Thus, we realize the importance of conflict in business decision-making processes by... Read More
Experts Beating Data Models in Predicting Virus Growth
Posted on20 Apr 2020
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Predicting virus growth tells us much about the pluses and minuses of data-based decisions. That’s because panels of virus experts consistently do... Read More
Grouping Causing Mistakes Overweighting Similarities
Posted on17 Feb 2020
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We learn grouping early in school. We also learn that many ways exist to group the same things. Yet, we don’t learn... Read More
Making Teams More Efficient By Setting Interim Goals
Posted on20 May 2019
Tagsdecisions, efficiencies, time management, team, Wired Magazine, University of California Los Angeles, Techniques, goal setting
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Breaking down a problem is a common problem-solving technique. Making teams more efficient has a similar solution. It involves setting interim goals.... Read More
Eating As A Social Activity For Effective Team Building
Posted on29 Apr 2019
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Eating as a social activity is as old as humanity. At first it’s easy to just see it as entertainment. Dig deeper... Read More
Making Processes More Effective By Knowing The Concepts Behind Them
Posted on22 Apr 2019
Tagsexample, process, analogy collection, Great British Bake Off, concepts, recipe analogy, decisions, change management
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The key to making processes more effective is to accept that they don’t fit all cases perfectly. The downside of processes is... Read More
Learning To Say No At Work As A Vital Success Skill
Posted on25 Feb 2019
Tagsindecisiveness, politeness, vagueness, Twitter, success, motivation, management, listen, honesty, decisions
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Legacy17, via their Twitter page, referred a chain of tweets about learning to say no at work. Twenty people were in the... Read More
Importance Of Correlation In Business Decision Making Process
Posted on05 Feb 2018
Tagscomplexity, decision-making process, decisions, Harvard Business Review, quantify, uncertainty, volatility, ambiguity, Nathan Bennett, G. James Lemoine, correlation
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The importance of correlation in business decision making shows up in two main ways. First, people overweight factors. Second, they underweight them.... Read More
The Myth Behind Empowering Employees In The Workplace
Posted on29 Jan 2018
Tagsempowerment, Gallup News, culture change management, engagement, Talent, motivation, fear, failure, employees, decisions
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Empowering employees in the workplace has been a buzz topic for a couple decades now. Yet, employee engagement remains low, less than... Read More
Making Good Leadership Decisions Has Two Keys
Making good leadership decisions is easy to know. Doing it is another matter. A Harvard Business Review article talked about four behaviors... Read More
Faking Confidence At Work Effectively to Secure Success
Posted on29 May 2017
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Almost all people have doubts. They’re what make confidence so appealing, so seductive. It triggers people’s need to remove them. It’s security.... Read More
Challenging Assumptions in Three Black and White Thinking Examples
Posted on10 Apr 2017
TagsChallenging Assumptions Series, problem solving, decisions, closed questions, assumptions, anchoring
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The three black and white thinking examples below show just how easy problems arise when people aren’t challenging assumptions every day. This... Read More
