Tag: thinking

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How to avoid avoidable failure

I’m delighting in thinking about the background as to how intelligent people make stupid mistakes.

Yes, I have another course to develop content for… this time strategic thinking and in particular UN-strategic thinking of Brexit, of Nokia and of Boeing 737Max amongst others. All were avoidable disasters that weren’t avoided: why?

In reviewing the most spectacular failures three key factors result in the kind of expensive, embarrassing, late-stage collapse that is the hallmark of a these cases.… Read more

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Systemic Thinking

“A baseball bat and ball costs $1.10, and the baseball bat is $1.00 more than the ball, how much does the ball cost?

Write down your answer… and we’ll get back to your answer shortly.

In our summary series addressing how you can grow your business we settled upon exploding a series of marketing myths, one myth- that consumers take the time and energy to consciously search through options in selecting the best brands or solution to their problems – we’ll address in more depth today.… Read more