COMMON SENSE: Should Be More Common
It is the quintessential ability for any manager, much more important than any theoretical knowledge, as it also helps to determine what …
COMPARTMENTALIZATION: Hiding Info from Colleagues
Compartmentalization happens in any group and any time when you do not want to tell Pekka and Jukka what you have recently learned from Mekko and …
CONSTRAINTS OF A SYSTEM: Opening Vents Underwater
For instance, becoming filthy rich in academia is impossible …
CRAPPY BOSSES: They Suck…Your Blood and Hopes
A crappy boss is a person in a position of power who habitually breaks agreements in …
CRAPPY JOINT: Context Matters
Crappy joint is an organization where you cannot realize your potential…
CURSE OF ACTION: Promising Is Safer than Doing
Imagine you give away green, crispy 100-euro bills to people in the streets. Would you make the lucky getters happy …
CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE: Woe From Wit
It happens when a person in an interaction knows more than her counterpart and, assuming knowledge to be self-evident …
DAILY INCREMENTS: From Quantity to Quality
World-class experts and the world’s most wanted criminals are not born…
DATA: You Are What You Consume
Knowledge gained at one level always serves data for the next in a spiral…
DELAY: The Valley of No Results
The longer we do not see the result, the harder it becomes to force ourselves to continue …
ENDPOINT TIERS: Tasks, Goals, and Dreams
If you do not understand the quality of your goal, you will have incorrect expectations and likely apply the wrong efforts …
ENDPOINTS, CRITERIA, PARAMETERS, AND MEASUREMENTS (ECPM)
A planning-controlling system must connect measurements, parameters, and criteria to desired endpoints …
EXPECTANCY: Today’s Measure of Tomorrow’s Success
Expectancy is a person’s subjective estimation of the probability of reaching a specific valuable endpoint …
EXPERT FUNNEL: Everybody Knows Something; No One Knows Everything
The more specific the knowledge, the smaller the number of people having it …
EXPERT VS. PROFESSIONAL: Expertise Vs. Certificate
It is good to separate a professional from an expert. A professional is a person with …
EXPLORE AND EXPLOIT: A Balance in Time
Exploring and exploiting are two strategies for establishing knowledge-performance balance. The usual explanation is …