Leadership, The Secret (Pt 7): Experts, Research & Beauty Contests
Leadership’s subjectivity and its unproven scientific status tempts us to rely heavily upon experts and their research to tell us what good... Read More
Economics, Illogical or Irrational?
Once upon a time, long, long ago, a successful retail executive confided that in college she didn’t do well in economics. She... Read More
Science, Its Irrational Aspects
Posted on21 Nov 2013
Tagsbank, irrational, money, names, pressure, research methodologies, scientific, Scientific Method, The Economist
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Irrationality enters science when people either operate the scientific method or are its subjects. Scientists are not immune to pressures, biases and... Read More
Consumer Psychology & Freud’s Rebirth
Posted on29 Dec 2011
Tagsjudges, decisions, emotions, Ernest Dichter, Sigmund Freud, intuition, irrational, names, online dating, Retail Therapy, retailing, subconscious, The Atlantic, The Economist
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There is no place that the revisiting of our unconscious urges are taken more seriously than in retailing. The Economist article “Retail... Read More
The Irrationality of Procrastination
Posted on14 Oct 2010
Tagsirrational, University of Calgary, The Thief of Time, The New Yorker, scientific, reality, rationale, procrastination, Piers Steel, Personality, objective, Mark D. White, logic, intuition, emotions, decisions, Chrisoula Andreou, action
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I came across a book review in the October 11, 2010 issue of The New Yorker about The Thief of Time, edited... Read More
