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To Bet Or Not To Bet: How The Brain Learns To Estimate Risk “Planning entails making predictions. In an uncertain environment, however, our predictions often don’t pan out. And erroneous prediction of risk often leads to unusual behaviour: euphoria or excessive gambling when risk is underestimated, and panic attacks or depression when we predict that [...]

This is the first posting in a new series called Proud Postings. In it I ask several other bloggers in the Project Management arena “What are the 3 postings you are most proud of?” or “What are your favorite postings?”. This kick off is provided by Eric D Brown and I really like his suggestions. [...]

I tried to get around it. I tried to avoid it. But in this case I can run, but I am surely unable to hide. So I decided to face it head on, get it out in the open. I just have to make the connection between training your mind for adaption, as suggested in [...]

The world is changing dramatically, fast and beyond everything we have seen. Globalization and technology have introduced more diversity, more dynamics and more interdependencies than ever before. This provides project management, and management in general, with a challenge. How to survive in this environment? Together with dr Ali Anani, I am taking on this challenge [...]

by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar In Fish And OODA Loops we introduced fish schooling as an important part of the Fish Pond Metaphor. Schooling mimics human tendency to organize and view our selves in groups of people. This leaves the question of how individual fish operate within a school resulting in one organic [...]

Below are the most popular posts on Project Shrink: The Blog (last 30 days – UPDATED 15th April 2008): 1. Introducing The Fish Pond 2. Management And Meditation 3. Proud Postings: Eric D Brown 4. Swimming Upstream The Information Flow 5. Fish And OODA Loops 6. What Is The Best Way To Motivate Team Members? [...]

A couple of months ago I got an email from Sean Stewart pitching me Zephyr “a revolutionary test management system with top features”. Well, “revolutionary” is always good for getting my attention… So, I had a small email interview with him about testing processes and his companies test suite. If you could decide, how would [...]

By Ali Anani and Bas de Baar After reading about OODA loops and Social OODA some of you (yes you!) might have had one big question: What the heck has this to do with fish? In this post we will go back to the Fish Pond and explain the connection. Well, we’ll try. Fish do [...]

Multicultural Project Management “An effective project manager will work with culturally diverse team members to overcome all cultural, perceptual and language barriers. In todays global economy, multicultural project management is key to the success of many multinational corporations. This is particularly true for manufacturers that assemble components and parts from many countries around the world.” [...]

By Ali Anani and Bas de Baar In our previous article we painted the image of people walking on the OODA highway, continuously performing OODA loops, interacting with the environment, in the search for information packages that help them adapt to changes. In this posting we want to extend this notion to the use of [...]