Input from subject matter experts is essential if you want to make quality decisions in a world which is overloaded with information. But how do you know you can actually trust the opinion of any particular subject matter expert? There […]
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‘The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.’ This was said almost 2000 years ago by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and it’s […]
The enemy of unstoppability is distraction. If we could focus our mind on a single goal for a long period of time, the results would be staggering. Unfortunately, our brain is not naturally wired to shut out distractions and move […]
Why is it that smart people still do stupid things? One of the reasons is a little known thinking fallacy, which is called the Dunning–Kruger effect. This is ‘a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly […]
My favorite scene of the Saturday Night Live show is ‘More Cowbell.’ In this sketch we see a live studio recording of a famous Blue Oyster Cult song, including a disruptive ‘cowbell’ player. Finally the studio director steps in. To […]
You have been invited to give a TED talk or want to give a TED-like presentation to surprise your audience. Now what? A single pebble thrown in the ocean will change the shoreline: TED talks can catalyze ideas, accelerate learning […]
You will never get the new results you want from the existing behaviors that you like. Stretching yourself is therefore essential to get ahead in (corporate) life. But this is only part of the story. The reason is that it […]
Why is that the same speech can get standing ovations by a raving crowd and only invokes polite applause when delivered to a different group of people? It might have something to do with the fact that you simply fail […]
‘Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.’ This quote from Einstein is a stark reminder that it is our job […]
Nature is unbalanced. In other words, input (effort) and output (results) are not equally distributed. This means that the majority of our results come from a minority of activities. We know this phenomenon by the name 80/20 rule or the […]
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