Skip to content

decision making

How To Think for Yourself When Everyone Disagrees With You

Why your brain treats disagreement like danger, and a simple two-minute technique to protect your thinking.

How To Think for Yourself When Everyone Disagrees With You

How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure

Someone is counting on you deciding fast. The problem? Time pressure makes you more confident while making you less accurate.

How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure

Shell Had Six Years to Prepare. I Had Four Months.

Outstanding leaders under pressure aren't making great decisions. They're executing decisions they already made. The difference is preparation. And most leaders skip it.

Playbooks will go up in flames if you are not ready and have to make decisions under pressure such time constraints.

How to Stop Overthinking Your Decisions

Gathering more information feels responsible. There's a point where it tips into overthinking and keeps you stuck.

How to Stop Overthinking Your Decisions

How I Bankrupted Two Companies

It wasn't bad decisions. It was no decisions. I had technology that could beat Intel and HP. My team waited for direction. I gave them meetings.

The stress and feeling of being a failure when you are part of the reason for two companies going bankrupt

Mindjacking: When Your Opinions Aren't Yours

Every day you make decisions you think are yours. Most aren't. The algorithm decided, the expert weighed in, the crowd chose. You just clicked agree.

Be careful for mindjacking. It is when others take over thinking for you.

Mental Models — Your Thinking Toolkit

NASA engineers and management had the same data. Their conclusions were 1000x apart. The difference? The mental tools they used to think.

Mental Models — Your Thinking Toolkit

The Daily Journaling Habit That Helped Me Find My Authentic Innovation Self

For the first time, I'm sharing the deeply personal practice that transformed me from a "rinse and repeat" performer into an authentic innovator—and why this matters more now than ever.

The Daily Journaling Habit That Helped Me Find My Authentic Innovation Self

The Thinking Hack That Built Billion-Dollar Companies

While competitors think harder, start thinking laterally—the systematic method for finding breakthrough innovations hiding in plain sight.

The Thinking Hack That Built Billion-Dollar Companies

The $200M Gut Check That Taught Me Intuition Isn't Magic

What looks like instinct is actually practical thinking skills in disguise. Here is the three-step framework that makes it reliable.

The $200M Gut Check That Taught Me Intuition Isn't Magic