Are Your Employees Filling the Void?
This is one of the questions I ask leaders as I assess the decision culture around them. The inspiration for […]
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What is Menu-Driven and Overly Efficient Thinking Doing to Your Organizational Outcomes?
An exercise I have found most helpful when making decisions is to simply write the word “options” at the top
Are Your Top Performers Saving Others . . . and Misleading You?
As much as they try not to, every leader has their favorites. These people are typically the top performers. They
Is Decision Fatigue All in Your Head?
“It kind of sneaks up on you,” said a senior leader I was interviewing recently. “When I think about it,”
Is Your Organization Promoting Fauxductivity?
Over the past several years, we have seen a bunch of made-up terms to illustrate the many changing behaviors of
Are Your People Comfortable with Intelligent Disobedience
I have a friend named Andre who is vision-impaired. He has a guide dog named Crimson. Crimson is trained to
Are You Practicing Deliberate Calm?
How do you react when the stress hits the fan? It could be something big, like the website going down
Don’t Make Decisions So Hard!
One of my favorite mental models is Occam’s razor because I spend so much time struggling to follow it. Occam’s
How to Stress an Entire Organization without Really Trying
Case studies are one of the best ways to improve critical and strategic thinking. The best business and engineering schools
Are You Making the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder?
A while back, I mentioned one of the best books I’ve read in 2025, The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders