

The Brain's Allergy to the Big Picture
Do you suffer from Systems Blindness? You almost certainly do. The problem is that your brain’s hardwiring is designed primarily to keep...


The Robert Frost Quandary, or How Irrational Thinking Might Save Your Life
You stumble out of the wilderness, having had no contact with humans for at least ten days. You’re weak from hunger and fatigue and you...


The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Are You Under its Spell?
When it comes to brain biases, one that gets an awful lot of play is the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It's a phenomenon demonstrated by many...

Cause and Correlation, or the Pirate Problem
As you can see from the above graph, global warming is pirate-based. It's something I think we all suspected, but were hesitant to...


The Unbalanced Brain: a Cautionary Tale
Last week, I talked about whole brain strategy. This week, a look at what happens inside a workplace when a company or organization tries...


How to Run Your Company Like Da Vinci
It's hard to overestimate the power of whole-brain thinking. Sometimes defined as "systems thinking", it occurs when your creative right...


The D'Oh Effect, the Heath Brothers, and the Secrets to Good Decision-Making
Buyer's remorse is a terrible thing. It occurs when you have the realization that you've bought the wrong thing and now you can't return...


Measuring the Unmeasureable
"Metric" is a kind of sexed up word for measurement, popular among the corporate crowd. The interesting thing about "metric" is that it...


Your Brain on Bias
Last year, roughly 40,000 people died in automobile crashes on America's highways. This is a tragic number, but it has been much worse in...