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Mental tools for Negotiating

I’m not criticising EU commission President Juncker, I’m sure he would say that this quote was taken out of context… but when he said Britain must leave the EU immediately, it was just the first step in a negotiation, and to do this effectively we had better learn about the mental tools associated with negotiating.

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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How to become the Decider

Today’s post isn’t about George W Bush, but he did say in 2006 he was the decider, my perspective is, if he had used these mental tools his decisions would have been much much better, but you be the judge.

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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Experimentation mental tools

Far be it from becoming a mad scientist, everyone in business needs to know the basis on which our investigations into business works.

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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Creativity mental tools… to help you think objectively about creativity

This isn’t a post about increasing creativity or brainstorming or other such tools, but it is a post about how you should prepare your mind to be more creative by thinking about creative thinking.

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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Mental tools for modelling

I’m not sure if Cara Delevingne has ever considered using mental models, but she has certainly piqued your interest, read on…

With thinking about the course I’m developing and with recently coming 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