Build a winning global business
In this video, David outlines how a reexamination of brand values can revitalise any organisation. Paying lip service to the idea of mission statements is a common mistake. A good …
Course: Critical and Strategic Thinking in Practice
Design a matrix communications plan
How can large, sprawling organisations address complex problems quickly and efficiently in a fast-changing business landscape? The short answer: many of them can’t. Especially those with traditional, intensely bureaucratic, and …
Beat the competition
The wealth of data and the analytical tools now available to businesses have ushered in a new era. By studying your competitors systematically, you can identify their strengths and weaknesses, …
Thinking Talents
To develop a team with transient diversity requires an understanding of individuals ‘thinking talents’. These vary drastically from person to person. If you have completed our sister course Emotional Intelligence …
Check your biases
In this video, international poker champion Liv Boeree teaches you how to sidestep three cognitive biases that can compromise your decision-making. High-stakes poker is decision-making distilled to its essence. As …
Make better life choices
After you watch the video, consider the following questions. Why do you think probabilistic thinking (entertaining and evaluating multiple possible futures) is so difficult and unnatural for many people? Consider …
The Three Rules of Three: Watch and Practice
In this video, actor Alan Alda shares his three “rules of three” for effective communication. Over to You After you watch the video consider the following question and feel free …
What is situationally appropriate leadership?
Here, we will look at the power of situationally appropriate leadership, which is a lateral, distributed approach to running any organisation. The NASA example With the complexities, risks and constraints …
Design Solutions Like a Mathematician: Watch and Practice
In this video, mathematician Po-Shen Loh explains how mathematicians boil a problem down to its essential elements. This approach can help you significantly in communicating with others about any complex …