Tag: politics

  • Guillotine Management: Catastrophic Lessons Learned from the French Revolution

    Guillotine Management: Catastrophic Lessons Learned from the French Revolution

    The French Revolution is often remembered through dramatic imagery: crowds storming the Bastille, revolutionary tribunals, and the ominous fall of the guillotine. Yet beneath the spectacle lies one of history’s most profound case studies in failed governance, uncontrolled change, and catastrophic decision making.

  • Factfulness Part Two – Rules of Thumb

    Factfulness Part Two – Rules of Thumb

    Our first article explored Rosling’s Dramatic Instincts—the biases that lead CIOs and Project Managers to overreact to crises, vendor hype, and boardroom pressure. This article explores the very humans tendency to take a ‘good enough’ approach to problem solving. “Heuristics” is the official name, but it is also known as the ‘Rules of Thumb’. Are…