by david allan van nostrand | May 19, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Assumptions, Human Behavior
The names of the three males used as models for depictions of Jesus back in the days of Greek Gods sound like a perfume, a handbag, and a Harlem theater. Orpheus had superhuman skills and hung out with Jason and the Argonauts, a Toronto band. Hermes was the god of a...
by david allan van nostrand | May 5, 2025 | Assumptions, Items in the News, Organizational Behavior, Strategy, Third places
The coffee houses of the seventeenth century were places to discuss politics, trade, and business. In England, coffee houses were referred to as Penny Universities. One penny was the price of admission to a place where people from all social classes could join in...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 28, 2024 | Assumptions, Experiments, Items in the News
What Is The Curse of Knowledge? Brothers Chip and Dan Heath are co-authors of four New York Times best sellers that have sold more than 3 million copies in 33 languages. Chip is a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Dan is a Senior Fellow at Duke...
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 12, 2024 | Assumptions, Misinformation traps, The Myopia of Experts
The company was facing some unfamiliar challenges. For the first time in his career, the CEO brought in outsiders to investigate the issues. At the end of their engagement, the outsiders delivered a report that overturned several of the company’s dearly-held...
by david allan van nostrand | Aug 28, 2023 | Assumptions, critical thinking, Using Information
The bandwagon fallacy assumes that something must be true because others think it is. A great example is found in thousands of HR departments that value the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator because so many others use it. Just like a perpetual motion machine, its popularity...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 7, 2021 | Assumptions, Gatekeepers, Misinformation traps
Research should be providing the fact base that points companies in the direction of likely success. Instead, it stands at the corner of walk and don’t walk, selling maps to the stars’ homes. Business research today churns out mountains of misinformation that send...
