Commentaries

MICROSCOPE: An essential perspective from which to observe more and evaluate it better

December 23, 2016

In Look: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills, Jim Gilmore provides and then examines what he characterizes as six “looking glasses” to help people to more fully and more richly observe the world around them. The fourth is…

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MAGNIFYING GLASS: An essential perspective from which to observe more and evaluate it better

December 22, 2016

In Look: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills, Jim Gilmore identifies and then examines what he characterizes as six “looking glasses” to help people more fully and more richly observe the world around them. I agree with him:…

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Who was Amos Tversky and why is he significant?

December 21, 2016

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (above) are the focal point of Michael Lewis’s latest book, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, published by W.W. Norton & Company (December 2016). Tversky was a cognitive psychologist who changed the…

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4 Assumptions About Risk You Shouldn’t Be Making

December 21, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Anthony for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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Marketing’s Holy Grail: Digital personalization at scale

December 20, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Brian Gregg, Hussein Kalaoui, Joel Maynes, and Gustavo Schuler for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about…

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Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things

December 20, 2016

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih for Harvard Business Review (2008) and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of…

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BIFOCALs: : An essential perspective from which to observe more and evaluate it better

December 19, 2016

In Look: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills, Jim Gilmore identfies and then examines what he characterizes as six “looking glasses” to help people more fully and more richly observe the world around them. I agree with him:…

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Don’t Let One Bad Experience Stop You from Giving Feedback

December 19, 2016

  Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * It can be tough to get up the nerve…

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Beware the Confirmation Trap When Analyzing Data

December 18, 2016

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Data analysis can help us sort through complexity and make…

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Thought-provoking observations by Daniel Kahneman

December 17, 2016

Daniel Kahneman is among today’s most influential thought leaders. This is explained in part by the quality of his thoughts, to be sure, but also by their impact on other thought leaders. Here is a representative selection. * * *…

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