Tag: Decision-making
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Listening to Understand
A reaction is a response, sometimes automatic. It’s an action or a thought programmed into our brains and triggered by a stimulus. When we’re faced with a situation, reactions happen. It’s important to understand they’re automatic, they’re not conscious efforts. And we shouldn’t base our actions on them. There are situations that require a swift…
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The Power of Vision
Every year at the PFMI, I teach a class about data. It’s a scripted show honed over almost a decade’s worth of learning and experience of working with data. If a student walks out with anything, I want it to be this: Data analysis starts with questions, not data. You can take any data set…
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Original Creation
Not every message that lands on the board is a direct quote, a few of them are original creations. There’s a limited amount of space and a fixed number of letters I can use to create a message, leading to shortened quotes or lyrics that are randomly pulled from the middle of a song. Other…
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Surprise Star Trek
This quote often gets mis-interpreted from Sun Tzu’s Art of War. The concepts of turning disadvantages into advantages is all over that treatise, and likely influenced the writers of Star Trek. Yeah, it’s another Star Trek Quote. Sorry. In “Loud as a Whisper”, from Season 2 of The Next Generation, a deaf negotiator joins the…