Tag: management skills

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Mental tools for Explaining

I don’t think Jack Black ever thought of using any of these tools to help explain things, but YOU should.

While I’ve been developing an SMU course, I recently came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 speech, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, which introduced me to an explanation of what I’d been doing all my business life – using the power of  applying mental tools from a wide array of disciplines and applying these to the business questions I had.… Read more

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Intelligence test for hiring new managers

Here’s a little bit of fun, and a tongue in cheek test. Try it on your team members,
Below are four simple questions.  Try to answer all of them before looking at the answers.
#1:  How do you put a giraffe into a fridge?
#2:  How do you put an elephant into a fridge?
#3:  The King of the Jungle is holding a meeting for all of the animals. 

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