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A Fact Is Not Data
Professor Alex Edmans emphasizes the importance of critical thinking in evaluating data, warning against biased sampling and cherry-picked information, as illustrated by a marketing strategy report that only considered six companies, potentially misrepresenting broader outcomes.
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A Statement Is Not Fact
In a video lesson, Professor Alex Edmans highlights how our tendency to trust authority figures can lead to misconceptions about famous quotes, emphasizing the importance of scrutinizing context and evidence to avoid accepting potentially misleading statements as truth.
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Why We’re Prone to Believing Misinformation
Professor Alex Edmans explains that suspending our natural reactions to information that contradicts our beliefs can help us recognize biases like confirmation bias and black-and-white thinking, ultimately allowing us to avoid misinformation and gain a more nuanced understanding of reality.
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Why Misinformation Prevails
Misinformation spreads rapidly, particularly on social media, due to incentives that encourage even reputable researchers to simplify or exaggerate their findings, prioritizing catchy, extreme messages over nuanced, accurate information, as exemplified by the oversimplified advice of the original Atkins Diet.
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Cultivate Your Critical Inquiry Skills
Professor Alex Edmans emphasizes that understanding cognitive biases, rather than statistical expertise, is key to identifying misleading information, and he encourages viewers to leverage their innate tools for critical thinking to counter these biases.
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How to Outsmart Misinformation
In a world overwhelmed by confident yet often misleading claims, research professor Alex Edmans emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and informed decision-making to combat misinformation and enhance our freedom.
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Working Together as Allies
Men can become better allies in their organizations by understanding that women’s empowerment is not a competition, committing to gender equality, actively listening to women, and embracing the opportunity to create meaningful social change.
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A 21st-Century Framework for Preventing Sexual Harassment
Michael Kaufman suggests reinventing workplace discussions on sexual harassment by using the “red light, green light” framework, which emphasizes understanding behaviors’ impacts rather than intentions, and encourages addressing yellow light behaviors that may be ambiguous.
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A Guide for HR Professionals
In a video lesson, Michael Kaufman emphasizes that HR departments need support from all business leaders to effectively drive gender equality and change, highlighting the importance of leadership involvement, measuring workplace metrics, and fostering a supportive environment for parental leave.
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Reexamining Gendered Behaviors
In this video lesson, Michael Kaufman discusses the restrictive gender norms that dictate behaviors for boys and girls, highlighting their limitations and advocating for a reevaluation of these expectations to foster more equitable parenting and professional opportunities.
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Rethinking Gender, Power, and Privilege
In a male-dominated society, men benefit from privileges like assertiveness in negotiations and fewer interruptions, yet they also face societal pressures and internal struggles, highlighting that gender equality is essential for both men and women.
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Men and the Gender Equality Advantage
In this expert class, Kaufman explores how gendered expectations, such as boys not crying and girls playing with dolls, persist into adulthood and offers strategies for advocating for gender equality by reevaluating these societal norms.
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Engaging with AI
Professor Michael Watkins emphasizes that instead of being overwhelmed by AI, professionals should actively engage with it to enhance strategic thinking, problem-solving, and career advancement by challenging AI to produce smarter, more creative solutions.
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Political Savvy
Professor Michael Watkins emphasizes that rather than avoiding office politics, professionals should embrace and leverage it as a strategic tool for career advancement by building alliances, understanding stakeholder dynamics, and employing a thoughtful approach to influence and collaboration.
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Visioning
Professor Michael Watkins emphasizes that to effectively achieve a strategic vision, organizations must dream big while starting small, engaging their teams early to create a compelling, shared vision that balances ambition with achievability.
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Structured Problem-Solving
Professor Michael Watkins emphasizes that structured problem-solving is essential for teams to clarify issues, explore relevant solutions, and foster consensus, ultimately leading to robust outcomes, especially in uncertain times.
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Mental Agility
In this video lesson, Professor Michael Watkins emphasizes the importance of mental agility in strategic thinking, comparing chess to business decision-making, where each choice triggers a ripple effect, requiring a balance between big-picture awareness and attention to detail.
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Systems Analysis
Professor Michael Watkins emphasizes that organizations should be analyzed by focusing on key components—strategy, structure, systems, talent, incentives, and culture—to identify interdependencies and drive improvement, similar to how one would examine an airplane engine by its essential parts.
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Pattern Recognition
In this video, Professor Michael Watkins explains how to improve pattern recognition and avoid cognitive traps, emphasizing the importance of understanding biases like confirmation bias and the sunk cost fallacy in making effective decisions in complex situations.
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Defining Strategic Thinking
In response to the Suez Canal blockage in March 2021, Professor Michael Watkins emphasizes that leaders can enhance their strategic thinking skills—through pattern recognition, systems analysis, mental agility, structured problem-solving, visioning, and political savvy—to better navigate the complexities of global trade disruptions.
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The 6 Disciplines of Strategic Thinking
In this video lesson, Professor Michael Watkins outlines six key disciplines of strategic thinking that can benefit anyone aspiring to lead, emphasizing their role in recognizing opportunities, prioritizing actions, and mobilizing resources for career growth.
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The 6 Disciplines of Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking, as defined by Michael Watkins, involves critically and creatively envisioning potential futures beyond the current situation, and he outlines six specific disciplines to intentionally cultivate this mindset.
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How to Conduct a Sludge Audit
Professor Cass Sunstein highlights that “sludge,” or bureaucratic frictions like excessive paperwork and waiting times, hinders access to benefits, and suggests conducting a sludge audit to streamline workflows and improve quality of life by identifying and reducing these inefficiencies.
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Key Considerations for Designing Inclusive Services
Ethical companies should consider the cognitive burden their products impose, as limited bandwidth can hinder marginalized populations from navigating administrative barriers, leading to distributional unfairness and potential human rights violations, necessitating thoughtful design to ensure equitable access.
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Understand the Power of Choice Architecture—and Its Shadow Side
Professor Cass Sunstein discusses how companies use “sludge” to complicate unsubscribing, manipulating consumer behavior against their interests, while advocating for “choice architecture” that promotes beneficial defaults and simplifies decision-making while preserving user freedom.
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How Designers Can Work with—or Against—Consumer Biases
In a video lesson, professor Cass Sunstein discusses how inertia and various cognitive biases, such as present bias and status quo bias, affect consumer behavior, offering insights on how designers can structure products and services to better engage customers and highlight important features.
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What Kind of Designer Are You?
In a video lesson, Professor Cass Sunstein discusses three types of designers—manipulative, naive, and human-centered—highlighting how the latter prioritizes user experience by minimizing “sludge” and fostering customer satisfaction.
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An Introduction to Sludge
In this video lesson, Professor Cass Sunstein explores the concept of “sludge”—the bureaucratic obstacles that hinder access to essential services—using Kafka’s “The Trial” and a COVID-19 case study to illustrate how reducing these barriers can improve people’s lives.