Gregg Vanourek and Bob Vanourek wrote an article titled Leaders, Do You Have Your People’s Backs? (18 September 2023).
Continue reading “Good leaders tell their people “I’ve got your back”—and mean it.”Knightian uncertainty
I recently posted a review of the book Why Can’t You Just Give Me The Number? An Executive’s Guide to Using Probabilistic Thinking to Manage Risk and Make Better Decisions by Patrick Leach. In response, Rick Nason commented about the “Knightian distinction of risk & probability.”
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Lucinda Holdforth wrote a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald titled ‘A lot of nonsense’: It’s time to call out LinkedIn (29 July 2023).
Continue reading “LinkedIn Nonsense”Ludwig Erhard, Germany’s first Minister of Economics
Lawrence W. Reed wrote an article titled Ludwig Erhard: Architect of a Miracle. Erhard was the first Minister of Economic Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, a position he held from 1949 to 1963.
Continue reading “Ludwig Erhard, Germany’s first Minister of Economics”Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work
Jocelyn Moveck and Matt O’Brien wrote an article for the Associated Press titled Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work (31 August 2023).
Continue reading “Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work”EY: 7 business models for creating ecosystem value
Greg Sarafin wrote an article for EY titled Seven business models for creating ecosystem value (1 Dec 2021).
Continue reading “EY: 7 business models for creating ecosystem value”Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini on The End of Bureaucracy at Haier
Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled The End of Bureaucracy: How a Chinese appliance maker is reinventing management for the digital age (November–December 2018). The article is about the extreme decentralization and accountability at Haier, which bought GE’s appliance business in 2016.
Continue reading “Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini on The End of Bureaucracy at Haier”the propensity to produce bullshit and the tendency to fall for bullshit
Shane Littrell, Evan F. Risko, & Jonathan A. Fugelsang of the Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada) published an article in the British Journal of Social Psychology (Wiley) titled ‘You can’t bullshit a bullshitter’ (or can you?): Bullshitting frequency predicts receptivity to various types of misleading information (4 February 2021).
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Mark Dent wrote an article for The Hustle titled Why so many brands use sound to make you buy stuff (14 July 2023).
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W. Trey Hill wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled What Administrators Don’t Get About Data (12 July 2023).
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