Most Conspiratorial Secret About Experts That’s Hard To See
Posted on14 Jan 2019
Tagsinnovation, money, peer review, research methodologies, Scientific Method, office politics, Secrets About Experts Series, conspiracies
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The most conspiratorial secret about experts is the way money coordinates behaviors among those with an interest in research. They include grantors,... Read More
The Most Blasphemous Secret About Experts That’s Hard To Believe
To influence us, experts often cite their research. They use rules based on the scientific method to do it. Yet, it’s easy... Read More
Science’s Subjective Birth
Posted on30 Oct 2014
Tagsprocess, Practicing Safe Science Series, Royal Society, The Economist, Scientific Method, scientific, intelligence, emotional intelligence, assumptions
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Understanding the birth and development of modern science helps us become better problem solvers. It was just an idea over 355 years... Read More
Practicing Safe Science
Journalism has a persistent bias for the new and exciting. They sell in pop culture, and as it turns out, they sell... Read More
Problems with Science
The biggest problem with science are people, not only scientists but the people who fund, publish, cite and use it. As sharp... Read More
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
Leadership, The Secret (Pt 6): Scientifically Unproven
Posted on03 Feb 2014
Tagsprove, Leadership - The Secret Series, uncertainty, subjective, Scientific Method, quality, leadership, emotions, definitions
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A professor and I were discussing the effect of goals on employee performance. He was commenting that research shows they raise performance... 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
Creative Innovation (Pt 13): Overcoming Biases
One of the points Giovanni Gavetti makes in “The New Psychology of Strategic Leadership” (Harvard Business Review, July-August 2011 edition) about associative... Read More
Over Thinking Decisions (Pt 3): Antidote
What’s the antidote for over thinking (OT) as referenced in Ian Leslie’s article, “Non Cogito, Ergo Sum,” (Intelligent Life, May/June 2012 edition)?... Read More
