Crash Course
How to Make Tough Decisions: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills
We make small choices like what to eat for lunch, but we also have to set goals, pick a career, and decide how to invest our hard-earned money. It’s not easy! We don’t want to make a decision out of fear, rather than doing what’s best...
Crash Course
Behavioral Economics: Crash Course Economics
Why do people buy the stuff they buy? In classical economics, most models assume that consumers behave rationally. As you've probably noticed in your real life, in case after case, people don't actually make rational decisions. There can...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to outsmart the Prisoner's Dilemma | Lucas Husted
Two perfectly rational gingerbread men, Crispy and Chewy, are out strolling when they're caught by a fox. Instead of simply eating them, he decides to put their friendship to the test with a cruel dilemma. He'll ask each gingerbread man...
TED Talks
TED: Why people of different faiths are painting their houses of worship yellow | Nabila Alibhai
Divisions along religious lines are deepening, and we're doubting more and more how much we have in common. How can we stand boldly and visibly together? Inspired by an idea from her collaborator Yazmany Arboleda, place-maker Nabila...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: 5 tips to improve your critical thinking - Samantha Agoos
Every day, a sea of decisions stretches before us, and it's impossible to make a perfect choice every time. But there are many ways to improve our chances -- and one particularly effective technique is critical thinking. Samantha Agoos...
Let's Tute
Financial Procrastination
In this video we will learn about the Financial Procrastination and relatable practical example etc. Following topics we will cover in this session: 1] What is procrastination? 2] Different reasons of financial procrastination. 3] Why do...
Curated Video
Self Control: The Top 10 Ways to Resist Impulses, Control Your Choices and be More Mindful
Whether you want more time, less stress, better project leadership, less unplanned risk, greater influence, or to move another step forward in your career, self control will be one of your greatest assets. So, let’s look at 10 techniques...
Curated Video
What is Sunk Cost? ...and the Sunk Cost Fallacy?
What is Sunk Cost? And what is the Sunk Cost Trap, or the Sunk Cost Fallacy? Sunk Cost is a concept that is important to project management, and in this video, I'll tell you what it is. Sunk Cost is the investment (of money, resources,...
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What is Opportunity Cost?
There's an old saying: ‘Time is money’. It's all about Opportunity Cost. It means, if you try to save money by doing something yourself, you may be omitting to think about the value of your time. When you are working on that thing, you...
Curated Video
How to Succeed in Project Management: 8 Skills to Cultivate
Do you want to know how to succeed in Project Management? I'll tell you: hard work. But in this video, I look at eight particular skills to cultivate. They are all themed around one master-competence that is crucial to your success as a...
Curated Video
What is Group Think? ...and How to Prevent it
Group Think is nasty. It leads to poor decisions... sometimes dangerous ones. So Project Managers need to know what it is, how it happens, and how to prevent it. Group Think was first identified in the 1970s, by the social psychologist...
Curated Video
Top 12 Non-Technical Skills that a Project Manager Needs
It's not enough to know all the technical Project Management skills. To succeed, you need a load of non-technical skills too. Here are my top 12. First, by non-technical, I mean skills that are not the key PM skills like scheduling, risk...
Curated Video
Better Decision-making and More Robust Choices - Top 10 Tips
The test of a 'good' decision is not the outcome. Instead, consider a decision to be good if the right person took it, with the best available evidence, following a sound process. Here are ten tips to strengthen your decision-making...
Curated Video
The Importance Of Company Culture
What defines a company's culture? Is it simply the benefits and perks or is it something bigger, like feeling inspired by those around you to do your best. We've asked some of our recent interviewees to chime in on this as well as the...
Curated Video
Preserving the Halibut Population and a Family Business
Meet a family deeply rooted in halibut fishing and learn how their work and their lives have changed in recent decades. Nora recounts her upbringing on longline boats and the demanding, rewarding nature of the work. Her father, Matt, has...
Curated Video
The Process of Hosting the FIFA World Cup
This video provides an overview of the process for selecting a host nation for the FIFA World Cup. It discusses the historical controversy surrounding the tournament's location, the requirements and inspections that potential host...
Curated Video
The Journey of Cristiano Ronaldo: From Manchester United to Real Madrid
This video tells the story of Cristiano Ronaldo's journey from Manchester United to Real Madrid, highlighting key moments such as his controversial red card in the 2006 World Cup and his record-breaking transfer fee. It explores the...
Curated Video
What is the Delphi Method? And How to Use the Delphi Method.
The Delphi method is a structured way to pool the opinions of many experts to reach a group solution. It was developed in 1969 by the Rand Corporation to facilitate technological forecasting. It has the benefit of overcoming the bias...
Curated Video
What is Wise Leadership and What can it Do for You?
Wise leadership makes a difference. While smart leaders keep things on an even keel, wise leaders know they have a window of opportunity to make a difference and are determined to seize their chance. The two primary forms of wisdom: ⚒️...
Curated Video
What is an Exception Report? ...and How to Prepare One. And what's an Exception?
An Exception report is issued when something exceptional happens (an Exception), and they document the incident and how it is to be handled. As a result, time is of the essence. The contents of an Exception report are typically: • The...
Curated Video
Three Concepts to Make You a Smarter Project Manager
One of my favorite books from a few years back is John Brockman's 'This will Make you Smarter'. I have cravenly blagged his title, but not his content. Instead, here are three less well-known concepts that will help you be a smarter...
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To Be in the Majority | Bite Sized Project Management Thought from G H Hardy
The exceptional early 20th Century mathematician, GH Hardy, said 'It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.' In this short, bite-size video, I reflect on...
Curated Video
Avoid Sunflower Bias
Sunflower Bias is when we turn to face the 'brightest' source in the room - and allow them to influence us beyond the rigor of their arguments. As they are growing, Sunflowers turn to face the sun during the day. And people do something...
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Intuition: How it Works and What to Do when it Fails You
You use your intuition every day. And it often serves you well. But, not always. So, how does it work and how can you fix it, when your intuition fails you? Intuition is your ability to: 1. Extract a small amount of essential information...