That Tough Decision You’re Avoiding Won’t Get Easier with Time
Blog, Corporate Culture, Decision Making, LeadershipIf the last two years of navigating the pandemic did nothing else, it revealed just how consequential even the most seemingly immaterial decisions can be.
DEMENTES Podcast: Question Your Beliefs, with Dan Ariely
Blog, Decision Making, Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Jk_wGTM9o
In this episode of the DEMENTES podcast, host Diego Barrazas is joined by Dan Ariely to discuss the downside of being an authority in the behavioral sciences, the types of decisions we make,…
The Concept of Net Zero Is Deceptively Simple—and a Dangerous Trap
Blog, Decision Making, Leadership, TrustSometimes realization comes in a blinding flash.
Why It Seems Like So Many Big Tech Whistleblowers Are Women
Blog, Corporate Culture, Corruption, Decision Making, Internal Reporting, Speak-Up and Call-Out CultureA number of high-profile whistleblowers in the technology industry have stepped into the spotlight in the past few years.
Ray Dalio and the Game Theory of Choosing Business Partners
Blog, Decision Making, Personality & PersonnelIn his 2017 book Principles: Life and Work, the American billionaire investor and hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio offers some tips on choosing business partners.
“Severance” and the Philosophy of Separating Work-Me from Home-Me
Blog, Corporate Culture, Decision Making, Personality & PersonnelIf you could take work-life balance to its most literal extreme, what would it look like? That’s the central theme of Severance, the sci-fi series that has just finished airing on Apple TV.
Why Public Discourse Has Become So Stupid
Blog, Corporate Culture, Decision Making, Personality & Personnel, Podcast, Speak-Up and Call-Out CultureIn this episode of The Good Fight, host Yascha Mounk speaks with Jonathan Haidt about how we can make social media less toxic, what political and technological reforms might help fix the problem, and how we can empower the moderate majority to fight for its values.
Promoting the Truth About Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Blog, Corporate Governance, Decision Making
Social media companies cannot prevent Putin from blocking their platforms, but there are workarounds.
The first casualty of war is truth. Variations of that famous aphorism are attributed to California Senator Hiram Johnson at the turn of…
In Confronting a Polarized Workforce, Persuasion Is Not the Goal. Learning Is!
Blog, Corporate Culture, Decision Making, Leadership, Speak-Up and Call-Out Culture
"Persuasion is a zero-sum game," says Harvard psychologist Julia Minson. "Whereas learning can be a massive win-win."
In her new book I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times,…
Director J.J. Abrams Read “Think Again” and Interviews Adam Grant About the Book
Blog, Decision Making, Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pzAMoHt1ss
In this episode of Worklife with Adam Grant, from TED, the director J.J. Abrams takes Adam's job and interviews the author and psychologist about the ideas behind the book, and shares the points…