Tag: decision making

Dunning-Kruger Effect: The Lemon Juice Bank Robber

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.

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Stay Silent for Ten Seconds

A coach asked me a four-word question, then stayed silent for ten seconds. I walked away with an answer I didn’t know I carried. Why silence leads better than the best advice.

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Jobs Was Right. You’re 43 Years Behind.

In 1983 in Aspen, Steve Jobs described a machine that could answer in your place after your death. He announced a 50 to 100 year horizon. The architecture that made it possible arrived 34 years later. That gap explains what a corporate vision is actually for: cutting.

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Obey or Innovate

Comfort obeys. Innovation disturbs. Voluntary servitude is not just a philosophical concept. It is also a sharp organizational diagnosis. Étienne de La Boétie is best

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