Last year I worked with a client on how we could guide people to make good decisions in situations of uncertainty. One of the things they told me was that their clients found it very difficult to describe the possible states of affairs they did and didn’t want. At the time we were talking specifically…
Read morePerhaps we need to talk more about what it’s like to do that? I’m talking decisions about what to do when it’s just not obvious what is the best thing to do. Really, that’s what a decision is. After all, when things are certain, there’s nothing to make a decision about. It’s only when there…
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Why it’s difficult, here in Australia, to translate research findings into commercial products and services? Risk aversion has to be part of the answer to that question. Research can be uncertain in its output and commercialising innovation is risky. There has to be firm ground somewhere to offset that—and a culture that supports people with…
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So many of our big issues need cooperation but instead we use the language of opposition. Rather than being harmless, I think it damages our ability to work together to get the outcomes we need and want. When facts are contested and the stakes are high what we get, more often than not, is opposition.…
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