Perspectives

I have had a number of conversations recently with people who were lamenting the state of disorganization in their companies. The stories revolve around people spending too much time getting stuff done due to a lack of process or an inability of others to follow...

There is a great post in Inc Magazine that discusses five common leadership fears and how to get over them. These are the fears they have identified: Criticism Failure Making Decisions Speaking Responsibility I like the list as it's a good summary of leadership fears...

I often feel there should be rules about arguing specifically to prevent Ad Hominem fallacies in arguments. Something like the ones the Marquess of Queensbury adopted for boxing. In my fantasyland of arguing, the red card would be reserved for these fallacies. Now I...

Several weeks ago I was ruminating about various types of bias and I ran into one recently that I thought to be very interesting in terms of its implications. This is Confirmation Bias. According to some definition pulled from somewhere "In psychology and cognitive...

In the world of biases, I know myself that I'm guilty of recency bias as I have a habit of giving the most credence to that which I learned latest. (Or it could be that I have a bad memory and can't remember anything I learned earlier.) Whatever it is, we're all...

Let's face it, if you're working more than eight hours a day, you're not being effective. Lots of studies show that productivity declines rapidly after about eight hours of work. And much of what we're doing in a day is busy work. You might have heard of the term busy...

There is a great study that has been published by the Harvard Business Review that attempts to look at what is going wrong with strategy execution. Some of the results are surprising but given what we have all experienced, they shouldn't be. One of the things that the...

I love the stuff that comes out about leadership as so much of it doesn't make much sense. That's why I was pleased to see this quote which reminds me of something I was told along time ago: Fake it till you make it. This quotation comes from the book Act Like a...