What this graphic and the underlying data analysis show more than anything else is how little evidence and rational analysis have to do with most decisions by most people. We can lament that all we want. If you’re running a lottery, you make money off this predictable irrationality. On the other hand, if you’re committed [...]
Tagged decision makingDriven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices,
Lawrence, Paul R. and Nitin Nohria
What happens when you combine what we are learning about evolutionary biology with what we have learned about how organizations work? One of the wellsprings of thinking about organization and organization design has been the Organizational Behavior group at the Harvard Business [...]
One of the lovely things about the Internet is that the good stuff is there whenever you finally manage to stumble across it (so is the crap, but that’s another story). I’m in the process of cleaning up a bunch of stuff that has been lingering in my various queues and stopped long enough to [...]
Tagged BloggingKeri Pearlson, a long time friend and colleague, and I have proposed a session for the Enterprise 2.0 conference scheduled for this June in Boston. Your votes could help determine whether our session makes the cut. We’d both greatly appreciate it if you’d go take a look at our pitch and give it a thumbs [...]
Tagged Enterprise 2.0Jordan Frank is VP of Sales and Business Development for Traction Software. Last Fall, Paula Thornton ( @rotkapchen) interviewed Jordan during Traction’s annual user group meeting.
Jordan has been working with a variety of knowledge intensive organizations over the much of the last decade. Here he shares some of his insights on the interplay between [...]
Tagged Knowledge work, TractionHere’s a typically thought provoking session from TED. Conductor Itay Talgam uses videos of conductors leading performances as a launching point for reflecting on leadership.
For organizations that depend on the active and creative engagement of their knowledge workers (who doesn’t), Talgam’s perspective is especially relevant.
Tagged leadership, managementThe earliest blog posts were essentially pointers to ‘good stuff’ out there. Here’s such a pointer from last fall from my former partners and still good friends Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui. They’ve found two very worthwhile reads that I otherwise would have missed.
Following up on yesterday’s post about John Cassidy’s New Yorker article, [...]
