Does It Matter If Lessons Are Learned?
It’s altogether too common to hear leaders, whether in companies or governments, try to absolve themselves of the responsibility for something catastrophic by speaking of the lessons that they have learned. Although some humility usually accompanies such admissions, the overall message seems to be that “we didn’t know any better.” Just learning lessons doesn’t solve…
Read MoreDisrupt, or Disrupted? That is the Question
It should come as no surprise that many would-be entrepreneurs are trying to figure out how to create an innovative business by doing what everyone else is doing already. There’s a good reason for that. It’s because when they look at other businesses, all they see are solutions. Pick any business you like. What you…
Read MoreMake Things Easier
Would you like to make things easier? Would it be nice if when you thought about the future and started to make plans for it, that things would just work out? That something wouldn’t always come up that prevented you from doing what you intended? And would it help you to be able to make…
Read MoreHow to Get Momentum
Momentum is a term used in physics. It’s meaning presupposes motion. It doesn’t apply to something or someone who isn’t moving; who’s just resting. You can be immobile – unable to move, inert – not moving regardless of the reason, or in motion. For physicists, however, momentum only applies if you’re moving already. To understand…
Read MoreIn Order to Succeed, Study Failures
Why is it that some people succeed, while others fail? Is it simply that those who succeed follow the “formula,” while those who fail don’t? Psychologists describe survivorship bias as the tendency to consider only those who survive whatever it is that you’re looking at, as a model for what works, but in the absence of those…
Read MoreWhen the Answer Is Not the Answer
In 1947, economist and Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon published a book entitled Administrative Behavior. In it, he coined a new word: satisficing. Satisficing – a combination of the words “satisfy” and “suffice” – is anything that seems to satisfy your requirements and is also sufficient to the task. It flies in the face of what…
Read MoreThe Psychological Cost of Failing to Do K
Take a look at your list of things to do. Is there anything on it that has been carried over from yesterday? How about the day before? Is there anything on your list that has been there for a week? A month? If you postpone something and then forget about it, then the next time…
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