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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 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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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