Sunk-Cost Fallacy

Irrecoverable costs should not govern future choices

The Discipline of Letting Go

Why smart leaders know when to quit

Watch Your Information Diet

Good thinking requires curating information deliberately, the same way people curate food.

Five Techniques for Strategic Thinking

Five techniques to sharpen strategic thinking

Best Work After Idea Fight Club

Strong opinions loosely held and tested by peers produce better client work.

Six Skills Strategic Leaders Need

The habits behind strategic leadership

Data Analytics for Managers

Sixteen practical takeaways from the HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers.

Strategic Thinking For Business Success

A practical guide to strategic thinking and its role in decision making

Factfulness Hans Rosling

Rosling shows our worldview is dramatically and negatively biased, not reality.

Beware of False Equivalence

Similar-sounding sources and forced choices mislead, and consultants must resist both.

Fixing Slow Decisions

Committees mollify and hedge; decision architecture and disciplined meetings actually decide.

Nudge Theory

Richard Thaler won the economics Nobel for revealing how defaults drive human choices.