Dr. Gleb Tsipursky How Not to Let Cognitive Biases Control Us When Dealing with COVID Why have so many people made so many bad decisions in dealing with COVID, from the start of the pandemic onwards? On the one hand, many ignored the information about the pandemic at first, dismissing its importance. Plenty believed […]
How To Cope With Depression In The Post-Pandemic Recovery Are you, or someone you know, struggling to cope with depression as we’re transitioning out of the pandemic? What you or they are going through isn’t as uncommon as you might think. According to a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, depression has […]
by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series. You can review part one, here: Step 4: Imagine that the decision, project, or process definitely failed, and brainstorm reasons for why your plan failed Next, ask all the stakeholders to imagine that they are in a […]
by Gleb Tsipursky Preventing Failure Working At Home During The COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic – Part One So many organizations are shifting their employees to working from home to address the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Yet they’re not considering the potential disasters that can occur as a result of this transition. An example of this […]
by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky Stakeholder Engagement – questions you need to ask Stakeholder engagement is one of the more critical aspects of leadership. Stakeholders can be anyone from your front line employees to suppliers to business partners, and your organization’s relationship with them is dynamic and can change over time. There are […]
Care about your bottom line? Then you should preferably hire women rather than men. This is true regardless of whether you factor in diversity considerations. Separately from the beneficial financial, social, and cultural impact of having a diverse workforce, hiring women over men makes dollars and sense. You might be surprised […]
by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky Editor’s Note: At the beginning of the public awareness cycle last January 25th, National Compass published a FAQ guide on what was known and not known about the virus, which was initially referred to as the 2019n-COV coronavirus or “Wuhan Coronavirus”, marking it’s point of origination in that city of […]
by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky Women and men around the country will be choosing a gift for their sweetheart for this Valentine’s Day. Yet their shopping decisions will be driven by gendered decision-making imperatives that powerfully influence their buying choices. They will both make bad decisions unless they take proactive steps to address problematic […]
by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky Negotiators, even professional ones, make surprisingly many wrong decisions that doom negotiations that should have succeeded. Many of these mistakes relate to overestimating how well they can read the feelings and thoughts of other parties in the negotiation, as well as the extent to which the other party […]
by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky Donald Trump’s “Fake News Awards” for what he calls “the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media” have drawn mockery. However, behavioral science research suggests they are deadly serious. These awards create an institution for Trump’s relentless attacks on mainstream media and position Trump as the only voice who gets […]
