Schadenfreude: Why Do We Find Joy in Colleagues’ Misfortunes?
Do you remember that feeling when someone you know stumbles and you can’t help but find it funny? A spark that briefly illuminates your…
Mastering Decision Making: Overcome Action Bias for Better Choices
Ever find yourself acting impulsively, only to regret it later? Overcoming action bias in decision-making involves understanding why we feel compelled to act impulsively…
Peak-End Rule: Influencing Memories and Experiences in Daily Life
A few years ago, I was in Miami with my friends. We all had landed at separate times, said our hellos, checked into the…
The Power of Confirmation Bias: How it Influenced Kodak’s Fall and Impacts Our Decision-Making
In the early 2000s, Kodak, once a dominant force in the photography industry, found itself on the brink of collapse. With digital technology on…
Overcoming Authority Bias: Lesson from Mahabharata’s Eklavya
Imagine being on the cusp of greatness, only to have it all snatched away because of blind obedience. How would you feel? The ancient…
Business Lessons from Mahabharata: Overcoming Sunk Cost Fallacy and Improving Decision Making
Picture this: It’s game night, and you’re playing a high-stakes game of dice with your friends. You’ve already lost a few rounds, and you’re…
Diderot Effect: How IKEA Encourages You to Buy More
Have you ever walked into IKEA planning to buy just one item and walked out with a cart full? Welcome to the world of…
40 Principles That Have Changed My Life
I celebrated my 28th birthday recently and it was time for an annual run through of my principles. I thought it would be a…
WHY SHOULD YOU NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE?
We don’t compromise because it’s right; we compromise because it is easy and because it saves face. We compromise in order to say that…
MAKING BETTER DECISIONS – LOGICAL FALLACIES AND BIASES
This is the second part of a two part series – As previously mentioned in part 1 of my article, the key to better…