{"id":267,"date":"2005-05-28T23:46:07","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/wp_1\/?p=267"},"modified":"2005-05-28T23:46:27","modified_gmt":"2005-05-28T21:46:27","slug":"its-what-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2005\/05\/its-what-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s What You Do &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting review of a management book &#8230; called &#8220;It&#8217;s Not What You Say&#8230; It&#8217;s What You Do&#8221; by Laurence Haughton &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>some noted gems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laurence begins the book with a startling statistic. Fifty percent of company initiatives fall through the cracks within two years. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most managers have a tendency to leap to conclusions, seek confirmatory evidence [the facts that tell them they are right] while ignoring disconfirming evidence , and are overconfident about the validity of their judgements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This should ring a bell: <strong>cognitive biases<\/strong> &#8230; and the mistakes and <strong>pathologies in organizational decision-making<\/strong> &#8230; when initiatives aim to install innovative stuff one wonders if (business model innovation) heuristics may help &#8230; I am sure they do. <\/p>\n<p>read on at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/archives\/002014.html\">BusinessPundit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting review of a management book &#8230; called &#8220;It&#8217;s Not What You Say&#8230; It&#8217;s What You Do&#8221; by Laurence Haughton &#8230;. some noted gems: Laurence begins the book with a startling statistic. Fifty percent of company initiatives fall through the cracks within two years. and Most managers have a tendency to leap to conclusions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[3,23,104,51,52,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}