Ten Basic Insights into How We Learn and Make Decisions

Saturday, December 25th, 2010

Our new understanding of brain development can helps us better discern the child’s natural cognitive and behavioral inclinations, and therefore how to harmonize their emotions, logical models.

A Practical Model of the Mind’s Decision-Making Process

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

…If (a) the sensory signal patterns have not roused the front-line emotional guards, and (b) the brain decides there’s time for a more deliberate analysis, then the patterns are sent up to the rational PFC (prefrontal cortex) tecchie upstairs, which keeps a library of models of cool logic, abstracted from knowledge and experience…

Tracking Performance in Uncertainty

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Decisions, Execution and Deliverables This series targets three topics (decision making, strategic execution, and project management).  You will also find links to thinkers, books, tools and other resources. Looking at the recent years’ book releases, we see a shifting from rigidly closed decision and management models, to open-ended approaches and analytical tools. Why?  Information now [...]

The analyst’s acuity. A humorist’s irony. Hearing the silence between the notes. Seeing both object and space, in minimalist and in Japanese art. Holding to the values beyond conflicting goals; reaching for the larger frame beyond the crisis. Spotting the patterns, navigating the chaos. How to think, how to manage.

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