Is choice overload a real thing?
When companies are consistently trying to prove innovation and growth, they’ll enter new verticals — further crowding those verticals. Is this stressing consumers? Continue Reading
Decisions
Business case: Personalize the arguments
“No time, Lance! I’m building out my slide deck, baby! Check out these transitions!” Continue Reading
Your decision making model has too much variability
Daniel Kahneman, who is way smarter than I am, chimes in on this one. Whew. Continue Reading
The problem with your decision makers
Many are just digital paper-pushers. And here’s why. Continue Reading
Why your decision-making process is skewed
Most companies (and individual senior leaders) have terrible decision-making processes in place. They often focus short-term, chase shiny pennies, and a host of other things. Why is this? How can it get better? Continue Reading
Financial decisions = akin to how animals find food
Some new brain research out of Wharton (UPenn) recently, and while it’s not entirely fleshed out yet and has more potential for research options, this is an amazing section: One of the fascinating takeaways from our research is that people… Continue Reading
When will people get annoyed by everyone discussing Big Data?
Probably pretty soon, right? Here’s the thing with Big Data, IMHO: most businesses, especially the publicly-traded ones, are quarterly in nature. They need results now now now. Big Data is a bit of a longer-term play. First off, you need… Continue Reading
Link short-term decision-making to long-term goals
In the grand scheme of writing this blog, one of the most interesting things that I think I’ve ever written is this whole idea of “micro” vs. “macro.” Basically, you can get consensus among one group (say, a senior leadership… Continue Reading