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Mastering Critical Thinking in the Age of AI
Two AIs, same question, different answers, and both missed the obvious one. Three checks to keep your critical thinking sharp when the answer comes from AI.
Succession Planning: Why I Cried on Stage as CEO
Good succession planning isn't a press release. It takes time, a ready successor, and relationships you share instead of hoard. How I'm handing over CableLabs.
How To Build Innovation Teams (My Playbook From HP and CableLabs)
How to build innovation teams, from the playbook I used at HP and CableLabs: culture before hiring, the right roles, the Idea Fund, and the right metrics
How To Improve Your Analytical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking judges a claim. Analytical thinking works the problem: break it apart, find what is really driving it, and test your read before acting.
How to Recognize Failure Patterns: How HP Quit and Apple Won
A partner named exactly how HP would lose, four years early. HP quit. Apple didn't. Here are the four failure patterns behind both calls.
How to Improve Your Abductive Reasoning Skills: The Sherlock Holmes Method
School taught you deductive and inductive reasoning. The third kind, abductive reasoning, is where new ideas come from, and it is the one AI can't do.
The Customers Who Walked Away
Forty-two killer questions that survived years of testing, and the three places to aim them.
How One Word Steers Your Answer
The anatomy of a bad question, and what makes one great.
What Half of 13 Reveals About Your Thinking
The power of questions comes down to how your brain works: it answers a question the moment you hear it, whether or not you want it to.
How to Tell a Good Decision From a Lucky One
An excellent decision and a lucky one leave the same evidence: a win. Tell them apart and you stop crediting luck as judgment. That's counterfactual thinking