decision making
The Innovation Metric Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard Used
HP used this R&D benchmark for decades and still managed to forget it. Most companies never found it.
You Knew Before I Did
I built a brand for twenty years. Then I searched for it.
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
When neuroscientists scanned the brains of people going along with a group, they expected to find lying. What they found instead was something far stranger. The group wasn't changing people's answers. It was changing what they actually saw. We'll get to that study in
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Thinking 101: A Pause, A Reflection, And What Might Come Next
Twenty-one years. That's how long I've been doing this. Producing content. Showing up. Week after week, with only a handful of exceptions—most of them involving hospitals and cardiac surgeons, but that's another story. After twenty-one years, you learn what lands and what doesn&
