One of my legal advisors, who was interested in international affairs, described the growing tension between Israel and Egypt, as well as the emergent ommunist threat from hina, a country with a population growing so fast, he said, that it would soon dominate the entire planet. This sparked ...
"When you're doing that as well, it's really important not to make statements which assume what the other partner is thinking, feeling, or contributing. "So, for instance, saying something like 'I'm always the one that's picking the kids up from school and you never do anything', bec...
Published in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield, it includes information about my experiences teaching critical thinking in Kazakhstan, Russia, and elsewhere. Many exercises show how to get around an authoritarian mindset that can scuttle a teacher’s effort to develop critical thinking. It also explains ...
Another tip she had was to plan for scale "from day one", thinking about the partners you work with, the suppliers, how much money you need to bring in and how often you might need to "go out and get more money". But the most important lesson, she says, is was to hire people y...
enjoying each others company and you assume they always have. It is the most perfect place. As Syd is preparing to leave this magical place he has so enjoyed with his Grandad; his Grandad says, “Syd, there’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you. You see…I’m thinking of stayin...
In both innovation and mega-projects, this takes the form of rushing to solutions before you have deeply interrogated the problem. And here’s one of the most important gems from our conversation, for me, as Bent says: “And the key thing you need to ask in in ...
In 1952, a pair of MIT faculty members named Arthur Fitzgerald, SM ’31, ScD ’37, and Charles Kingsley published a textbook called Electric Machinery. The book explains the motors and generators that, as they wrote, “provide the power on which industrialized societies depend.” You can ...
I’m prone to black-and-white thinking, and when the pandemic hit, I put travel on my mental DO NOT, NEVER EVER list, and never looked back. I thought there would be a “perfect” way that I could live to protect my family and those whom I love. I’ve really struggled with this...
“In speech and debate you’re competing against another student,” he says, “and you’re thinking about how to craft misleading claims, or how to craft correct claims that are very persuasive.” He may well be right, but his conclusion that technology can’t cure the fake-news p...
Intuition and “fast thinking” are critical to making sound marketing decisions. But they are also biased and contain blind spots. Our focus is on fact-based insights and “slow thinking.” which reduces decision-making risk. We work to squeeze in much fact-based meaning with as little error...