There has been an uptick in self-help books and blogs about mental models. But, there's a problem when putting it in practice.| Commoncog
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All great business people share a common, intuitive mental model of business. We look at how researcher Lia DiBello extracted that mental model.| Commoncog
How and why the Jobs to be Done Framework can help you sell more, faster, and accelerate your understanding of demand.| Commoncog
Cognitive agility is the speed with which an individual is able to update their mental models in response to new information. This is what the study of cognitive agility tells us about how we learn — and fail to learn — in business and in life.| Commoncog
How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators? We examine the career of one activist investor, to see what that tells us about the Asian tycoons we’ve been studying.| Commoncog
A technique for evaluating non-scientific advice, from practitioners.| Commoncog
Building effective organisations is a remarkably useful, if rare, skill. This is what it looks like, what it consists of, and how to tell if someone has it.| Commoncog
A comprehensive summary of W. Edwards Deming's ideas, whose System of Profound Knowledge is one of the most powerful things you'll find on the Operations side of the business expertise triad. Read this, so you don't have to read multiple books to apply his ideas.| Commoncog
Believability is a criterion for evaluating practical advice, originally articulated by Ray Dalio in his 2017 book Principles. These are some notes from practice.| Commoncog
Everything I know about learning in novel, ill-structured domains, summarised in one piece.| Commoncog