Life Lessons from Huey? Who is Huey? More correctly, who was Huey? He was our wonderful cat for nearly 13 years. Huey became much wiser than me this morning, as he passed from this world to the next. He knows what awaits us, and I can only guess. This is a post about how my […]
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A Disproportion of Theory to Knowledge Means Speculation and Guessing Thinking of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, it certainly is true. Much speculation but few facts. I waited more than two weeks to make this post, first hoping that there would be a happy conclusion to the disappearance, and then hoping simply for some
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Have the results of decision-making bias ever come back to bite you? Decision-making bias exists and is challenging to eliminate! In my last post, I discussed the thesis put forward by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman and co-authors Dan Lovallo, and Olivier Sibony in their June 2011 Harvard Business Review (HBR) article entitled “Before You Make
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When you have data quality problems, you might make better decisions by guessing. A cartoon on page 50 of the July-August 2013 Harvard Business Review (HBR)depicts one business guy telling another “We cut our marketing budget in half by just guessing.” Have data quality problems let you to a similar decision-making approach? Let’s have a
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Hey you entrepreneurs, start selling your new product idea as early as possible, according to a survey report published in the May 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR). Authors Vincent Onyemah and Abdul Ali, associate professors at Babson College, and Martha Rivera Pasquera, a professor of marketing at IPADE Business School in Mexico City,
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No, “Lean Start-Up” doesn’t mean that the bank account is empty, but that is the truth for many start-ups. Steve Blank, a consulting associate professor at Stanford University and a lecturer and National Science Foundation principal investigator at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University, offered “Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything” in
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In a recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) blog network post, strategy consultant Dorie Clark posited that “You’re Probably Wrong About How Others Really See You” , but I’m wondering how others see your website. Do visitors think your website is ugly and you dressed it funny? Are they silently correcting your spelling and grammar mistakes as
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Collegial Collaboration Writing up a case study is an exercise in collegial collaboration between you, your client, and your interviewees. Sometimes interviewees remember the same events differently. It is especially awkward if this should happen during a group interview. How should you keep differing recollections and missing interviews from derailing a case study? Here are a
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