Business decisions

How we make decisions, and how we can improve Critical decisions A fire fighter has just arrived at the scene of a house fire. The blaze is coming out of the top floor windows. How does he decide [...]

On the 1st February this year my eldest child started school. One day, during the orientation week, I visited a classroom for year 5 and was struck by what was pinned on the wall. Lots of [...]

Today, Phil is saving me from myself. Phil is my DIY guy. He comes round and fixes up the things that I’ve tried to do myself and f***ed up. I am not talented at DIY, so often a simple task [...]

85% of business leaders admit their organisations are not good at problem diagnosis, and 87% agreed this had significant costs – according to a recent Harvard Business Review article. [...]

When I was 27, I was given my first million dollar negotiation to do. It was to buy TV ads for a client with a certain TV network. I was proud to be leading the negotiation, and excited to test [...]

Here are the answers to our negotiation quiz. If you haven’t seen the quiz go back here to answer it first. Answers in bold, and explanations are in the third column.    

The unexpected payoff of being more productive After a 2-month productivity pilot with Heart Research Australia, their CEO Nicci Dent, said to me, “actually what happened was that even though [...]

It’s likely that you spend between 10-50% of your working life in meetings. That’s up to 1,000 hours a year. And yet, it’s just as likely that you’d say the meetings you have aren’t as effective [...]

Imagine an office where mornings are quiet, productive times where everyone can focus on doing great work, unphased by the ping of their phones, the interruptions of their colleagues and an [...]

I cried at a story of a mother’s dying child. I laughed at the idea of a moth cinema. I helped break the world record for the most people playing the spoons simultaneously. Where else but TEDX [...]