by david allan van nostrand | Feb 24, 2020 | Case Study, Human Behavior, Using Information
What Color Is Your Parachute? As each stove came down the ever-moving assembly line, I plugged a two-pronged electric heating coil into a two-hole socket and secured it with two screws: bzzt bzzt with an airgun, like a Nascar tire changer but slower. Four calrods*,...
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 17, 2020 | How to tell good research from bad, Misinformation traps
When someone asks “How long is a piece of string?” or “How big is a house?” you know the only right answer is “It depends.” How much does research cost? Same answer. We cannot say how much research costs any more than we can say how...
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 10, 2020 | Gatekeepers, Items in the News, Using Information
A new survey by Pew Research Center found how over the course of the last 12 months, people went to libraries twice as often as they went to see movies in theaters (10.5 times vs 5.3 times). Does this strike you as odd? Me, too. The study also says things are the...
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 3, 2020 | How to tell good research from bad, Organizational Behavior, Using Information
A few weeks ago I asked readers if it would surprise them to hear that when it comes to research, the top brass almost never ask to see the ingredients label. This earned me a bunch of amen, brothers from people who have seen firsthand how too few executives ask the...
