Type 1 vs Type 2 decisions, pre-mortems, mental models, behavioral economics, systems thinking — how senior leaders actually think.
For: Managers, leads, founders, anyone making bets that matter
Jeff Bezos's most-cited framework: irreversible decisions deserve deliberation, reversible ones don't. Most organizations confuse the two — and pay for it in lost speed and bad outcomes.
Post-mortems happen after the failure. Pre-mortems happen before — and Gary Klein's research shows they boost problem identification by 30%. The single highest-ROI meeting you can run.
Inversion. Second-order thinking. Opportunity cost. The handful of mental tools that turn ordinary judgment into strategic thinking — without requiring an MBA.
Every HR policy is a behavioral nudge — usually accidental. Knowing the four core mechanisms (defaults, anchoring, loss aversion, social proof) lets you design policies that work with human nature instead of against it.
Organizations aren't org charts — they're systems. Donella Meadows's leverage-points framework explains why most reorgs fail and which small changes produce outsized results.