So far, the 2020s have been rough: pandemic deaths, COVID shutdowns, supply chain challenges, inflation, interest rate increases, and whatever the hell Elon Musk is up to this week. Let’s not forget the wars in Ukraine and Israel/Gaza, further instability in the Middle East, the increasing tensions between mainland China and Taiwan, and whatever political show the United States puts … Read More
Let’s get this out of the way: people on your team are not impractical. However, we all have biases, preferences, habits, blind spots, and a desire to keep the boss happy that might take us out of being practical. Practicality can be defined as the ability to make decisions based on what is feasible and effective rather than purely on … Read More
Everyone is a pragmatist, right? There is never office politics, never an agreement on an idea because the Senior Vice President of My Job Is In Their Hands really likes it, no gut decisions not supported by data, no control issues between HQ and a field office (or control issue between employees), no bias against something that was tried back … Read More
At some point during my education, I remember seeing a film in school about trained responses. A psychologist trained monkeys to hit a lever and they would get a food pellet. It was a one-to-one action. Hit the lever once, get a pellet. Then they changed the response stimulus to require hitting the lever three, five, 10, or more times … Read More
