Business Thinking

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.

Refactoring a network of beliefs built on a largely under-examined worldview.

The Strategic Rehearsal is a remarkable cognitive science-based training intervention for business. This is a summary of every Strategic Rehearsal ever published.

Some implications of using the triad mental model of business as a North Star for learning. Part of a series on business expertise.

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.

All great business people share a common, intuitive mental model of business. We look at how researcher Lia DiBello extracted that mental model.

When should you train, and when you should throw them into the deep end of the pool?

Why good product people talk about iteration, taste, and Christopher Alexander, while novices obsess over the trappings of frameworks.

Product validation frameworks often describe processes without talking about taste. Here's why this is almost always a bad idea.

A look at two syllabuses for learning the art of business, why they're rare, and why to take notice when a practitioner mentions one.