Spend more than 15 minutes online or listening to TV and other media and you’ll find something that screams survivorship bias. How do you recognise it when you see it?

Russell Boon19 May 2018#Survivor, #bias, #decision-making, #decisionComment

Round 1: You Vs. Your Brain

I have recently taken up boxing again. I have been working too much and sitting too long, too many days a week. There are also days where my brain seems too foggy without a valid explanation.

Russell Boon25 March 2018#decision-making, #Health, #Fitness, #BoxingComment

Decision Making Under Adversity

We initially became interested in decision-making as a topic because of insights and evidence from the gender diversity debate. Organisations with both women and men on the leadership team in relatively equal

Russell Boon28 October 2016#decision-making, #decision, #mining, #adversity, #pressure, #indecision, #emergency, #procrastination, #management, #leadershp, #equality, #genderComment

What Were You Thinking?

A couple of years ago Australia’s two major supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths decided to pursue the concept of self-service checkouts. Quite obviously, in an effort to reduce costs and to increase profit.

Doing is Learning

Part of working with organisations to streamline their decision processes and working with staff to empower their decision-making is conducting some exercises to test these processes. Sometimes this is in the

self improvementRussell Boon29 September 2016decision-making, #decision-making, #Pscychology, #decision, #practice, #learningComment

The Need for Speed - part 2

There are decisions that deserve plenty of debate, analysis and consultation but the vast majority are not worth that much input and effort. Very few can't be undone and nearly all can be adjusted as circumstances dictate or require.

The Need for Speed - part 1

In almost every industry speed of innovation or production is key to success. When all else is equal, producing widgets faster than the competition usually puts you at an advantage. That’s true also for bringing a product

Russell Boon13 August 2016#Meetings, #Pscychology, #Agile, #business, #decision-making, #decision, #speed, Critical thinking, momentum, LeadershipComment

Electoral Decision Fatigue?

By the time you are reading this Australia will have a new Prime Minister. Full disclosure, this article was penned before the polling booths closed and whether Malcolm Turnbull is returned to office or Bill Shorten

Russell Boon2 July 2016sociology, #Politics, #government, decision-making, #decision-making, #decision, #Australia, #Election, #Brexit, #PrimariesComment

Two Things That Can Cripple Your Decision-Making: And What To Do About It

Making decisions is something we do every day, all day. An average person makes between 3000 and 10 000 decisions a day. Many of these decisions are made without you really noticing that you arrived at

Russell Boon21 April 2016decision-making, decision, Leadership, Management, anxiety, #Thinking, #decision, #Pscychology, #decision-making, #successfulComment

What's Going on in the World? And Then There's Statistics.

The Availability Heuristic refers to a common mistake that our brains make by assuming that the examples that come to mind easily are also the most important or prevalent things.

Russell Boon27 February 2016#Pscychology, #Thinking, #Heuristic, #decision, #decision-makingComment

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