The Amazon Management and Decision Making System
Just as the Toyota Production System revolutionized manufacturing, Amazon revolutionized the world of e-commerce. But unlike Toyota's system, Amazon's system…
Frameworks/Mental Models
Someone should have told us but no one did. Important frameworks every leader should know.
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Creative Breakthroughs and Insights — Busting Common Myths and How to Get Better at It
Everyone recognizes the importance of creative breakthroughs, but it continues to be a misunderstood phenomenon. Our need for creativity and…
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Viktor Frankl’s Laws of Dimensional Ontology and The Fallacy of the Dominant Dimension
Viktor Frankl, a concentration camp survivor and the founder of Logotherapy, is most known for his classic book Man’s…
Conceptual vs Experiential learning
Do you consider yourself an effective leader? What about parenting? When you think of getting better at something, what's your…
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How Double-Loop Learning Improves Performance
Our actions, and by extension performance, stem from thinking that is based on a set of hidden mental models. How…
Bolman Deal Four Frames Model of Leadership
Organizational life can be a confusing muddle, especially if you are trying to get better at playing the game. Take…
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Wisdom and Insight are Not Quite Portable
Experts promise hacks and easy formulas, but actually succeeding at something often is much harder, sometimes even impossible. Is it…
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Mental Models - A Subtractive Approach
Most common discourse on mental models takes an additive approach. But this tends to be half-baked, often useless in practice.…
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Blake Mouton Leadership Grid - A Model on Leadership Styles
Most leaders and managers tend to fall into patterns in how they go about balancing between prioritizing people concerns vs…
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Andy Grove on Balancing Top-down vs Bottom-up Approaches to Leadership
Ever wonder why that particular initiative of yours never got traction? Organizational politics kills more initiatives than people realize, and…
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Singular Big Bet vs Multiple Small Bets-Two Contrasting Approaches to Strategy
In their book, Business Experimentation, Rob James and Jules Goddard highlight two approaches to strategy that are diametrically opposite to…
Strategy as Tetris rather than Chess
Is chess a good analogy to describe decision making and strategy in organizations? For most folks, probably not.
Less in…