To Bet Or Not To Bet: How The Brain Learns To Estimate Risk
“Planning entails making predictions. In an uncertain environment, however, our predictions often don’t pan out. And erroneous prediction of risk often leads to unusual behaviour: euphoria or excessive gambling when risk is underestimated, and panic attacks or depression when we predict that things [...]
Project Shrink Links 30-03-2008
Proud Postings: Eric D Brown
This is the first posting in a new series called Proud Postings. In it I ask several other bloggers in the Project Management arena “What are the 3 postings you are most proud of?” or “What are your favorite postings?”. This kick off is provided by Eric D Brown and I really like his suggestions. [...]
Increase Your Management Skills By Meditation
I tried to get around it. I tried to avoid it. But in this case I can run, but I am surely unable to hide. So I decided to face it head on, get it out in the open. I just have to make the connection between training your mind for adaption, as suggested in [...]
Introducing The Fish Pond
The world is changing dramatically, fast and beyond everything we have seen. Globalization and technology have introduced more diversity, more dynamics and more interdependencies than ever before. This provides project management, and management in general, with a challenge. How to survive in this environment? Together with dr Ali Anani, I am taking on this challenge [...]
Swimming Upstream The Information Flow
by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar
In Fish And OODA Loops we introduced fish schooling as an important part of the Fish Pond Metaphor. Schooling mimics human tendency to organize and view our selves in groups of people. This leaves the question of how individual fish operate within a school resulting in one organic adaptive [...]
