Archive for 'Thinking' Category

Learning Decision Making from Alessi

Posted by Sharon 23 September 2009

Explaining the decision making skills of a professional or experienced manager to newcomers to the role, is one of the most difficult challenges I face as a learning designing, and the most satisfying when it is done well. Long ago, I learned that people are frustrated when they hear “it depends” but that’s usually what […]

Trust in teams - encourage team reasoning

Posted by Sharon 29 May 2008

Thanks to Kevin Hogan for alerting me to new research which continues to chip away at the bedrock belief - in economics and management - that we are all selfish.
Researchers, Andrew Colman, Briony Pulford and Jo Rose from the University of Leicester, conducted experiments that show evidence of collective preferences and team reasoning. […]

Check out the Thinking Toolkit

Posted by Sharon 25 February 2008

I’ve just come across a good webpage by consultants Lawrence Poole and Suzy Ethier called the Thinking Toolkit. I like their concept of using nature simulations to expose manager’s thinking patterns - and their heuristic thinking page has some good ideas about how to practice creative thinking.