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Pick your path: boundaries, decisions, focus
What problems are you battling with this week? If it's one of these three things, I have some useful stuff that might help.
Decision making
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How to make hard decisions more easily
Have you got a hard choice to make? Whether it's at work, or at home, having tricky choices ahead weighs on you, even when you aren't actively...
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3 myths about decision-making
I've been interested in what it means to make good, long-term decisions for a long time. I entered a policy career fresh out of university, all fired...
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Use your personal compass to make tricky choices
The average person makes 17,000 decisions a day. Most of those are easy, like what to have for breakfast or what time to leave for work, but some are...
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Fast decisions in uncertain times
When our future is uncertain and our workload is high, we need leaders who can make big decisions fast. As we start the COVID leadership autopsies...
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Good decisions
When COVID hit, many of us experienced – and are still experiencing – serious financial uncertainty. Businesses lost revenue, people lost jobs, and...
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Make better decisions by anticipating disaster
People are stupid when it comes to risk. For one thing, we don’t understand risk in our personal lives. We grossly overestimate our chances of...
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The grey area
I often discuss the importance of brave public service—community-focused, impact-led policy and strategy decisions that change our world.
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Preparation beats prediction
One of my favourite strategy workshops to run is about strategic risk - preparing for the worst. I recognise that sounds dire, but I promise it...
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Embrace awkwardness for better decisions
Good decisions need diversity. And I mean real diversity - age, background, gender, the whole lot. This is bad news for those who use the "diversity...
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Get over yourself: tackle decision bias
We are all flawed when it comes to making decisions. Like it or not, people are intuitively pretty crappy decision-makers. We often can't see outside...