Will Anyone Miss It If You Don’t Respond?
How many legitimate messages do you receive every day? I’m not talking about all the spam that drives us nuts, […]
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Hang On – Let Me Over-Think This!
Are you a smart person? I thought so. I am too. But sometimes I am too smart for my own
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What Happened to the Mustard at Costco?
One of the best deals in town is the $1.50 hotdog and soda special at Costco. I like mine with
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Closing the Knowing-Doing Gap
Perhaps you’ve seen it in the people around you. The purchasing agent who fails to act on a decision she
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Pizza – Vipers – Turkeys and Decisions
Economist John Cochran tells of learning how incentives influence people when he was living in Italy with his parents. The
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Are We on Our Way to Eradicating Wisdom?
In Hamlet’s Blackberry, a book about the competing forces we all face these days, author William Powers writes ” …
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Probability or Frequency – Which Should You Use to Make Decisions?
As Americans, we are in love with statistics. Sports commentators spew forth endless player facts during every game. Advertisers tell
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Could the Zeigarnik Effect Be Sapping Your Energy?
I’ve always been fascinated with the expeditors in busy restaurants. When I worked in commercial kitchens 40 years ago, we
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The Only Way to Accurately Screen Applicants is to Watch Them
I have been hiring people, writing about hiring people and teaching people how to hire people for more than 30
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Has the Power of Choice Distorted Our Decision Making?
Sixty years ago, Newton Minow, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, famously called television “a vast wasteland.” This was at