Nick Cave and I have something in common. We both fell in love at first sight. In “First impressions – the face bias” on Radio National’s “All in the Mind” program, they played a vignette by Nick Cave where he describes seeing his future wife for the first time where everything “came together… in one
What does a reserve bench do for a team in sport? It provides the coach with options, real options, depending on how the game plays out. If a player is injured, a reserve bench provides the coach with a range of players to choose from and that is why the bench is often frequented by
I am a bit of a gardener. More because I like the physical work than the “creations” that result. Which means all my talk of VEGetables and hard-smart work of late is right up my alley (check out my recent blogs here). Just to recap, VEG stands for Values, Environment and Genes, the three key
Last week I promised more on hard-smart work, the way to defeating our personal biases that create our blind spots. So here is a link to an excerpt from my book DECIDE How to Manage the Risk in Your Decision Making, a 5-minute read which tells the story of the invention of the Linotype machine
The last few weeks I have been writing about blind spots. The personal biases we all form at the intersection of the behaviours driven by our Values, our Environment and our Genes. Managing our blind spots and those of your team is an imperative. The diagram below provides an indication of what happens when we