Fear Instinct: How should consultants handle this instinct?
The fear instinct describes our tendency to pay more attention to frightening things because of our mental pre-disposition.
By Mithun Sridharan|2021-01-12T00:23:54+01:00November 26th, 2020| Consulting| Psychology| 4 minutes|0 Comments
The fear instinct describes our tendency to pay more attention to frightening things because of our mental pre-disposition.
By Mithun Sridharan|2021-01-09T20:54:44+01:00November 18th, 2020| Consulting| Psychology| 7 minutes|0 Comments
The straight-line instinct is our tendency to assume that trends will continue in just the same linear fashion as the past.
By Mithun Sridharan|2021-01-09T20:54:34+01:00November 6th, 2020| Consulting| Psychology| 7 minutes|0 Comments
The Negativity Instinct describes our tendency to notice the bad more than the good.
By Mithun Sridharan|2021-01-09T20:54:17+01:00October 28th, 2020| Consulting| Psychology| 6 minutes|0 Comments
The Gap Instinct describes our tendency to divide things into two distinct and often conflicting groups with an imagined gap in-between.
By Mithun Sridharan|2021-01-09T20:55:38+01:00October 18th, 2020| Consulting| Psychology| 4 minutes|0 Comments
Factfulness is a framework that helps create mental awareness about our primal instincts that distort our perceptions of reality.
By Mithun Sridharan|2021-01-09T20:53:49+01:00October 12th, 2020| Consulting| Psychology| 4 minutes|0 Comments
Factfulness is a ground-breaking book that provides a new framework to overcome our intrinsic biases and gain a factual view of the world.
By Mithun Sridharan|2021-01-09T18:19:25+01:00April 15th, 2019| Consulting| Psychology| 6 minutes|0 Comments
We value objects higher if we have been involved in their creation. The name of this phenomenon is the Ikea Effect.
By Mithun Sridharan|2020-12-12T18:17:04+01:00August 25th, 2018| Consulting| Psychology| 4 minutes|0 Comments
The Penguin Effect suggests that both, Penguins and humans, wait for unsuspecting 'somebody' to take the lead on something before joining in.
By Mithun Sridharan|2020-12-12T18:17:10+01:00August 20th, 2018| Consulting| Psychology| 3 minutes|0 Comments
The bandwagon effect refers to the tendency people have to adopt a certain behavior, style, or attitude simply because everyone else is doing it.
By Mithun Sridharan|2021-01-11T22:06:55+01:00February 5th, 2018| Strategy| Psychology| 6 minutes|0 Comments
Escalation of Commitment is a human bias that describes our tendency to remain committed to our past behaviours, even if they do not have desirable outcomes.
By Mithun Sridharan|2021-01-09T15:15:26+01:00January 29th, 2018| Strategy| Psychology| 3 minutes|0 Comments
Prospect Theory describes how we compare options and make choices. Our biases, influence the outcomes, especially when we faced losses.