HiPo vs HiPPO: One P Between Talent and Disaster
One letter separates the HiPo, your high potential, from the HiPPO, the best-paid opinion that crushes your decisions. Here is how to spot the beast and tame it through process.
One letter separates the HiPo, your high potential, from the HiPPO, the best-paid opinion that crushes your decisions. Here is how to spot the beast and tame it through process.
One isolated number is sometimes enough to bury a good project. Here’s why your most rational decisions are still steered by biases you never see coming, and how to neutralize them with method instead of willpower.
Three well-documented psychological biases, the IKEA effect, NIH syndrome, and the Dunning-Kruger effect, combine around generative AI to push professionals into publishing mediocre content while convinced of the opposite.
An untrained actor got 55 specialists to applaud a meaningless lecture. The Dr Fox effect explains why your meetings reward charisma over facts, and why the same trap awaits voters as the next election approaches.
In January 1995, a bank robber coated his face in lemon juice, sure it would make him invisible to cameras. His story gave birth to the Dunning-Kruger effect, the bias that makes the least competent feel like the best. Here is why it sabotages your innovation and management decisions, and how to neutralize it.
ChatGPT was supposed to bury Google. Three years later, Alphabet is worth $4.3 trillion, Gemini is nearing 900 million users and cloud is growing more than 80%. Autopsy of a death foretold that never happened, and the lesson for your company.
Steve Jobs did not describe the iPhone, he framed it. A single verb, reinvent, moved the audience from comparison to transformation. Here is the perception mechanism behind that choice, and how to apply it to your next launch.
In 1965, Stephanie Kwolek refused to throw out a “failed” batch of chemistry. That cloudy beaker became Kevlar, five times stronger than steel. What her three-second decision teaches us about curiosity, serendipity and the survival of your anomalies at work.
While labs burned billions to create synthetic blood, Franck Zal picked the solution up at low tide. The story of the marine worm that preserves organ grafts, and what it reveals about our blindness to hidden value.
Saturday of the Absurd How do you tell an image was generated by AI? The trap is simple now: the obvious defects are fading, but
A two-word sentence can trigger a nine-zero decision. “Translate COBOL.” When Anthropic explained how Claude Code could read, analyze, and accelerate COBOL modernization work, part
“This is about your health insurance, your rates are going to increase…” You pick up. By reflex. By fatigue. By conditioning. And you feel the
In 1939 at the University of California, Berkeley, a PhD student arrives late to a statistics class. On the blackboard: two problems. He copies them,