How to use framing to make better decisions
Have you ever been in a situation where you thought you knew the facts but in hindsight, you realised that your decision how to solve the problem was based on wrong assumptions about the situation or other people’s motives? Humans are constantly using frames to figure out what is happening and why. The new book […]
How to make better decisions
One of the core issues we all have to tackle every day is how to make decisions. If you are anything like me, you make a decision, look at the outcome and then blame yourself for not making the right decision. “I should have known…” But the latest and absolutely insanely valuable book How to […]
How uncertainty hits decisionmaking
The last few months have been a mix of uncertainty while we all have been adapting to a new normal. What this pandemic has made clear at least for me is the new unfamiliar territory of decisionmaking where even small decisions carry tremendous potential for uncertain outcomes. Most of us are no fans of uncertainty, […]
Defining your purpose: easier than it sounds?
In the midst of chaos, the unfolding pandemic, poor decisions on warnings and emergency management, the world can seem like it is literally coming to an end as we know it. It is soooo easy to get swept up with screen time being 67% up from last week (ahemm….), checking on Twitter and news sites […]
How to get your team from “good-enough” to “awesome”
Keeping with David Marquet’s book Leadership is Language still, I’ve thought more and more about how we can create learning environments where we shift successfully between redwork (doing actual work e.g. analysis) and bluework (reflection and planning). He outlines several key questions and issues that are key in understanding how we can move from what […]
How to lead through language
The new book of the week is David Marquet’s Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don’t and I was extremely happy to find this book at the airport after just having listened to his podcast episode in Coaching for Leaders. There are so many insights in this book […]
How to claim your IMAGE for leadership
Book of the week is The Leader Who Had No Title. I’ve heard about this book many times and now finally got my hands on it; it’s leadership wisdom but told as a story of a young man who has returned from war back to US and is living a life where he has settled […]
Reflections of a climate adaptation scientist
This past week I haven’t had much time or energy to read, the perks of being on a holiday… although I have to confess I walked into a second hand book store and got a “few” books now waiting for me… (below the evidence; my mother thought I was kidding when I had stacked these […]
How to embrace a new way of being
This week I have been looked at some of the insights from neuroscience (science of the brain) in order to better understand the complexities and mechanisms involved how we think, feel and act. Dr Joe Dispenza’s book “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One” discusses our […]
How to make infinite decisions in 2020 and beyond
The 2020 is looming and many of us are taking stock what we have accomplished in 2019, the great successes that we saw, the great fails we experienced, and many of us are yearning to make 2020 a better year, or even a better decade. But in order to improve, we cannot keep the old […]