Advice from a Dead Astronomer
Misinformation, disinformation, outright lies, and conspiracy theories fill our lives and our media. It’s our responsibility to search for truth.
Thinking
Institute for Propaganda Analysis
Propaganda! It’s alive and functioning in 2024.
“They” Are Trying to Bend Your Mind
Who’s doing the thinking?
STRENGTHEN AND DEFEND YOUR THINKING
Here are a few points to ponder regarding your thinking.
Bad Thinking – 10 examples
It’s a wicked world and we need better thinking to survive.
You work inside 5 nested boxes. Stay aligned.
You work within a set of nested boxes and it’s your job to keep them mentally aligned. Otherwise, you’ll be blind to emerging problems and opportunities. Plan on spending 90 minutes every quarter with your team to discuss the implications of changes in the larger environments that might affect your plans and decisions. Work on…
Pragmatic Business Thinking
In the last issue of MindPrep I mentioned our plans to create a course focused on Pragmatic Business Thinking and I drafted a course description. Mary, my friend and advisor, reminded me that I just might want to define the term before I described the course. Of course, I was assuming that all of you…
Defective Thinking ?
First, a quick quiz. What do they have in common? Well, obviously, they are no longer needed. But ponder this – these businesses were managed by experienced, educated, well paid, and (supposedly) smart people. What went wrong? Why did they disappear? I suggest that poor quality thinking is at the heart of the decisions they…
Your Thinking Machine
There is this cool, but complicated, thinking machine that sits between your two ears. You might think it looks like a grey blob, but I imagine it as a rather interesting machine that produces a custom version of “my truth.” Maybe it looks like this: Rin Duong You’ll note that the inputs to the machine…
