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

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

What Mental Biases do you have?

After reading about these mental biases, you’ll probably say that you knew them all along… that’s an example of a mental bias, just what we’ll discuss today.

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

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

New series- tools, models, analogies, heuristics

I’m preparing a series of classes for SMU related to what do I need to do to have a successful Asian business.

I’m thinking a critical element in creating a successful business is not about having the right answer to everything, but what’s more important are you asking the right questions.

Last week,  I’ll discussed the 5 critical questions one needs to answer to create a successful business. … Read more