Inductive Reasoning
Find out how to use inductive reasoning to reach a unified conclusion, by looking at outcomes, events, ideas, and observations.
Improving Decision Making
Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
In this podcast, we review "Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments," by Stefan H. Thomke. How to innovate to accumulate.
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Authors Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson examine why people don't own up to errors, why memories can fail us, and why admitting mistakes is so hard for some people.
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Author Hans Rosling discusses the need for evidence when making decisions, and how humans may be no better informed than a chimpanzee.
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
This entertaining book, backed by psychological research, looks at how to make better decisions. Find out more about it here.
The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future-Just Enough
This fascinating book explores how some people can be more successful by anticipating events before they happen.
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Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Learn about the science that explains why people forget passwords, make dumb choices in stores, cause crash crashes, and even miss signs of tumors in x-rays.
Oblique Decision Making
How an indirect approach can often be a more effective way of reaching decisions.
Think Again
Business strategy expert Andrew Campbell discusses why people make bad decisions, and explains how you can avoid the same decision-making flaws.
The Pursuit of Perfect
Positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar explains why perfectionism is a rejection of success as well as a fear of failure, and shares his tips for becoming an 'optimalist.'