Max Heald was an intern at Union Square Ventures this summer. He had an opportunity to review their stash of board decks from portfolio companies to glean insights. He did not disappoint. | learn more
“Because the CEO is the nexus of the company, it’s easy for them to become a bottleneck. By deciding, they push the organization forward. The converse is also true. When a CEO defers a decision, the entire organization waits.” | learn more
Australian economist Jason Collins equates the 165 cognitive biases with a broken model of the 16th century earth-centric universe. Basically, he makes the point that these biases are not “malfunctions” but are rather more simply explained by a better model […]
“One global technology company my team works with, for example, discovered that, on average, its sales employees didn’t understand or know about 22% of its product features, even though they believed they did.” | learn more
Are we happier than we were 500 years ago? This interesting post by Charles Chu ties together some interesting thinking on the subject. As many others have written on the topic, the basic formula seems to be that happiness = reality […]
Many people feel like they should be reading more, and more of the heady “classics”. Farnam Street advocates for reading as a habit, and for reading these types of books. But, in this article they make the very wise point […]
The head of Corning’s Silicon Valley technology center writes about how he keeps his team innovating. This is loaded with practical advice. One of my favorites: “Relationships that extend beyond the boundaries of the organization are invaluable to acquiring and […]
Farnam Street offers an excellent write-up that highlights the importance of incentives (you can never read too much about this), and the different systems of incentives and reinforcement. This is great learning for both business leaders and parents. | learn more
Highrise CEO Nathan Kontny tells stories about what it took for successes, including painter Claude Monet and musician Justin Bieber, to break through to exposure and success. | learn more
In his book Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman includes a chapter about psychological priming that draws on a number of research studies. This post’s author found those studies were way too small for the level of certainty expressed in the […]