Over the last several weeks, I have been writing about decision making, with the focus being how to get better at navigating VUCA environments. This has been rooted in the paradigm of reasoning and a deterministic view of the world. Which to be sure, works pretty well in most situations. And then we got hit... Continue Reading →

This week, wanted to take a detour and discuss a basic concept, which oddly enough, we don't think about a whole lot. I am reading ‘The Story of Science’ by Susan Wise Bauer1, a collection of writings by Scientists through the ages. If you are remotely interested in how the scientific thinking and method evolved... Continue Reading →

Last week's Economist had a dire title 'The next catastrophe'1. They call economics a dismal science for a reason - when the world is in the middle of a health and an economic catastrophe, the Economist chose to talk about the next catastrophe. They do have a point: if there is any time to draw... Continue Reading →

Last week, I had written about problem solving mindsets. The foxes - problem solvers who are able to solve a wide range of problems and the hedgehogs – problem solvers who are very good at specific problems. If you think about it, most of the systems in organizations have been tailored to reward the hedgehog... Continue Reading →

‘The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one big thing’ is a quote attributed to Archilocus, an ancient Greek poet (them Greeks again!). In the 1950s, philosopher Isaiah Berlin1 expanded on this idea to divide writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs, who look at the world through the lens of a single defining idea;... Continue Reading →