Tag: root cause

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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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Top 10 causes of business problems.

In the series of posts about becoming a great new General Manager, I’ve written almost exclusively about success, successful habits, success processes.  Its time now to consider the causes of business problems, and consider it in a positive way

Failure and the causes of failure, manifest themselves in many ways but to truly solve a problem you must make sure you have found the root cause.  … Read more