While on lockdown, the galleries of Singapore's iconic ArtScience Museum were empty -- but online, the museum was abuzz. Honor Harger shares how they're engaging deeply with its visitors through streamed talks, performances and workshops...

What is El Nino? Why can't we predict the weather? Just a few slight changes in global climate patterns can drastically shift the weather. Thanks to chaos theory, even our smartest meteorologists can't predict weather correctly.

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that you can never simultaneously know the exact position and the exact speed of an object. Why not? Because everything in the universe behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time....

In our series finale, we're going to take a look at some of the times we've used statistics to gaze into our crystal ball, and actually got it right! We'll talk about how stores know what we want to buy (which can sometimes be a good...

Today we’re going to talk about confidence intervals. Confidence intervals allow us to quantify our uncertainty, by allowing us to define a range of values for our predictions and assigning a likelihood that something falls within that...

Social psychologist Dannagal G. Young breaks down the link between our psychology and politics, showing how personality types largely fall into people who prioritize openness and flexibility (liberals) and those who prefer order and...

As the Earth's surface temperature gradually rises, it has become vital for us to predict the rate of this increase with as much precision as possible. In order to do that, scientists need to understand more about aerosols and clouds....

Social distancing is a time-honored, low-tech tool for slowing the spread of contagious pathogens. But it can also take a toll psychologically. Luckily, there are ways to mitigate these harms, so you can protect yourself and your...

In this video Paul Andersen explains how the quantum mechanical model of the atom refined the shell model. Uncertainty of the position of the electron as well as spin forces chemists to create an improved model. In this model the...

Arriving at a robust project schedule is hard. But, in this video, I will break it down into a simple process with three phases and 10 steps.

In this video, I answer the question, what is Expected Monetary Value, EMV? And we look at its use in risk management and decision theory.

Master strategic thinking: How to Think Strategically in 10 minutes – for Project Professionals. Strategic Thinking is the #1 skill for advanced Project Managers, and this video is your playbook.

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Risk-taking is often necessary when it comes to business matters, but Germans tend to be more cautious about taking risks in the business world. Strategic planning is a must. Learn the importance and value of performing thorough research...

Negotiating in Germany can be long and arduous. Be prepared to have everything you say—as well as your appearance, demeanor, and manners—subjected to considerable scrutiny. Every detail of your presentation will be dissected, and the...

This video discusses ambiguity in nonfiction.

What is the Stacey Matrix? It is designed to help understand the factors that contribute to complexity and choose the best management actions to address different degrees of complexity.

What is Uncertainty Avoidance? In cross-cultural psychology, uncertainty avoidance is how cultures differ on the amount of tolerance they have of unpredictability.

Risk and uncertainty are present throughout the Cost Volume Profit analysis. Namely, there are numerous assumptions about revenue and expenses. The methods used to estimate these variables seeks to minimize the level of risk present.

An eclectic paradigm is a theory based on a three-tiered framework that companies follow to determine if a direct foreign investment would be beneficial.

What are the Dimensions of Organizational Culture

A quick bite-sized introduction to Risks and Issues in 60 seconds

With any project, things will happen that you don't expect. Issues will emerge. So, how do you do Issue Management? In this video, I describe the following steps: 1. Identify Issues 2. Analyze Issues 3. Plan Issue Response 4. Take...

In this video, I answer the question, What is Anti-fragile? – and how does the conception anti-fragility apply to Project Management?



It describes things that not only benefit from a chaotic environment, but need one to...