What if positive thinking is mostly bullshit?
Realistic pessimism sometimes beats deluded optimism, you know? Continue Reading
Analytics
Financial metrics: Guys sound like a-holes when discussing, yes?
This post includes a fun little game to play in meetings. Continue Reading
The Guesswork Era may still beat Big Data
You can’t just introduce a new business paradigm on the fly without considering the psychology of your executives. Continue Reading
Future employment: Data translators
Following the bouncing ball (or the data-brick road). Continue Reading
Business intelligence tools: The four areas to consider
What can a global leader at McKinsey teach us about what business tools we need to be thinking about for growth? Continue Reading
Performance metrics: Evolve or die
The performance metrics you use (both internally and externally) are probably outdated for the digital age. So, what now? Continue Reading
Business metrics: You’re doing it wrong. Let’s fix it.
It’s really hard to do business metrics well unless you have a culture of honesty and transparency, and most companies do not. You can still grab, scrub, analyze, and decide off data and business metrics, but there will be a lot of politics, BS, under-cutting, and the like preventing true success. Continue Reading
People analytics is still far off
It’s 2016. We have data everywhere, and that includes data on new hires and management. Why don’t we use that to structure our business processes better? Um, because secretly it violates every tenet of human psychology… Continue Reading