“The key message of this book is about how to manage tough decisions and piles of data by applying a few consistent guiding principles. The short version is simple: there is a better way to sort through life’s questions than…
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Book Report: The HEAD Game
Tagged with: adversarial cooperation, analysis, analytics, charity proposition, CIA, critical thinking, Daryl Morey, decision advantage, decision-making, Deep Thinking, expertise, John Wooden, metrics, Philip Mudd, Superforecasting, The Black Swan, The HEAD Game, The Undoing Project
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Increase your Effectiveness: (Work) Faster
The same approach applies to most tasks in the workplace: you can dawdle and let a task take as long as you want to give/waste, to fill your day, or you can blast through it in the shortest time possible.
Tagged with: effectiveness, faster, impact, John Wooden, productivity
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Marketing
Book Report: The Numbers Game
“It is easy…to think of soccer as a game of superstars. They provide the glamour, the genius, the moments of inspiration. They sell the shirts and fill the seats. But they do not decide who wins games and who wins…
Tagged with: analytics, Andrew Friedman, Bill James, Bob Paisley, Boris Groysberg, Chris Anderson, conjunctive tasks, Daniel Kahneman, David Sally, Einstein, failure, Gabriele Marcotti, Gianluca Vialli, John Wooden, Kohler effect, Louis Van Gaal, Luca Toni, Malcolm Gladwell, Nathan Milstein, O-Ring Theory, Pep Guardiola, regression to the mean, Sepp Herberger, statistics, strongest-link, Tampa Bay Rays, team dynamics, The Extra 2%, The Numbers Game, Thomas Huxley, weakest-link, Zidane Clustering Theorem
Posted in Books, Management, Math and Science, Soccer, Sports
Posted in Books, Management, Math and Science, Soccer, Sports
Dilbert on Leadership
I’m a Dilbert fan. As an engineer who now works in marketing, and compounds that sacrilege by working in management, I see the humour from many angles perhaps more than most. Every so often, Dilbert tackles leadership, and more often…
Tagged with: circle of control, crucial conversations, Dilbert, John Wooden, leadership, luck, negotiating, psychopathy, randomness, storytelling
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management
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