Sunk Cost Bias. Do you ever suffer from it? Of course you do. Just about everyone does. Sunk cost bias is the tendency to continue doing something no matter how poorly it's going once you've invested time and money...the unwillingness to cut your losses and find a better solution. Think...

People look through your words to your actions when they want to know what you really believe. More importantly, their actions are guided by your actions. As we've all heard, if you don't walk the talk, they follow the walk and not the talk. Two recent events got me thinking...

In today's hyperactive, over-informationed, global, 24/7 world...it's hard for managers to relax and let their minds run free. And yet, there is much neuroimaging research showing that this is exactly what leads to the best decisions and becoming a more motivating manager. It turns out that when it comes...

Over the last few years a lot of research has been done on the science of political thought. Recently psychologists Russell Fazio and Natalie Shook had a group of self identified liberals and conservatives play BeanFest. BeanFest is a simple video game where the player sees a variety of...

Do you check your business email before you go to bed? Multiple times over weekends and holidays? In the middle of your daughter's wedding? Does it make you crazy when you find yourself in a place where there is no signal? So crazy that you check every few minutes just...

It seems the cold war has been revived. Or, perhaps it's not exactly the cold war as real fighting is going on and territory is being annexed. The world is watching as the verbal battle between Putin and Obama plays out around the actual ground game taking place. Just now...

Wandering around a wild and remote island clears the mind and leaves it free to ruminate. Throw in some reading ranging from Abraham Lincoln to the Booz & Company journal "strategy + business" to a wonderful crime thriller by the Swedish author Owen Laukkanen...and a few ideas surface. Amazingly Lincoln,...

...for me! Off clearing my head and thinking deep thoughts while hiking around Whidbey Island. Time for you to do the same?