Decision Making

“Did you hear Rick got another promotion?”“Seriously? I mean, I’m happy for the guy, but how come he got one and I didn’t? We basically do the same job!” It’s that time again. No, I don’t mean Christmas. It’s performance review time! ’Tis…
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Source: Wikipedia The Boston Celtics basketball team entered this season with much promise and high expectations. Last year, with two of their top players missing, they made it to the Eastern Conference Finals. This year, with superstar…
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Source: pxhere Myra Fernandes, Jeffrey Wammes, and and Melissa Meade have published an article titled “The Surprisingly Powerful Influence of Drawing on Memory” in Current Directions in Psychological Science. The scholars write,“The…
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I have been reading and contrasting two sweeping reports on English Planning by the TCPA and Create Streets. The first -Planning 2020  the Raynsford Review of Planning in England – takes a sweeping overview of the system.  Specifically on…
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“We are not born with abilities. This comes from practice, persistence and perseverance.”– Debasish Mridha, American physician and author Walking Into a Minefield The first time I heard about Bob Wieland was about 18 years ago. His story…
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Source: Wikimedia Commons Adam Bryant used to write the terrific Corner Office column for the New York Times. In that column, he interviewed successful leaders from large and small enterprises. He’s now moved on to become a Managing…
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Have the wonderful working opportunities promised by new smartphone tech been eroded by the replacement of real-life managers with algorithms and software? Mind Tools CEO James Manktelow believes the time has come to protect and defend the…
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Fast Company’s Katherine Schwab interviewed IDEO’s Michael Hendrix this week for an article titled, “IDEO Breaks Its Silence on Design Thinking Critics.” Schwab writes, “Over the last year, Ideo’s philosophy of “design thinking“–a…
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Source: Fortune.com The Wall Street Journal’s Vanessa Fuhrmans interviewed IBM senior executive Bridget van Kralingen several months ago. Kralingen comments on the traits and habits of the most effective leaders that she studied as an…
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“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich (1943- ), American politician, historian, and author We’re taught from a young age that “we can do anything that we put our…
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