Decision Making

Microsoft says meeting time has TRIPLED since 2020: typical workers are spending 57% of their time communicating [meetings, calls] with others: 'Today, knowledge work is, quantitatively speaking, less about creating new things than it is about talking about those things.’ https://t.co/aueW97bOrg

Notice problems, early; but then orient and act appropriately, there is no use in recognising them early, and not taking initiative to re-orient.

Action bias. Football goalkeepers will jump to the left or right when facing penalties, even though statistically they'd be better off just staying in the middle. Action bias is the tendency to choose action over inaction, even where there's no indication that taking action will help. We tend to (falsely) equate activity with productivity & keeping... See more

Researchers at MIT have questioned whether SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound) actually work. They suggest we might get better outcomes if we make our goals FAST (frequently discussed, ambitious, specific and transparent) not SMART. https://t.co/8cNDwLO455

Rory Sutherland on why group decision making is often worse than personal judgement https://t.co/Gj6CRLLF40