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Wayne Borchardt

Jul 28, 20210 min read

The impact of overconfidence on firm performance (GSB research webinar, July 2021)

Wayne Borchardt

Jul 8, 20210 min read

Decision edge – Boosting competitiveness through “scientific” strategic decision making

Wayne Borchardt

Mar 27, 20194 min read

Do shareholders care enough?

When a plane crashes, a thorough investigation ensues and, as we have just seen in the case of the Boeing 737 max 8, sometimes aircraft...

Wayne Borchardt

Nov 7, 20185 min read

Unlock value by changing three false beliefs

Most business executives implicitly believe these three pieces of conventional wisdom: 1. Find and secure your sustainable competitive...

Wayne Borchardt

Aug 23, 20183 min read

System 1 and 2, sure. But are there more systems?

How do we process information? Daniel Kahneman uses the concept of System 1 and System 2 to describe our fast, automatic, intuitive...

Wayne Borchardt

Dec 24, 20178 min read

This time there is a "silver bullet"!

I feel the need to defend the title of this article which many readers will find clichéd and/or exaggerated. The reason that I have used...

Wayne Borchardt

Nov 22, 20173 min read

Seven Deadly Sins of Strategy

When I first became interested in behavioural economics, I looked for a framework that classified all the cognitive biases – see...

Wayne Borchardt

Aug 19, 20174 min read

Strategic Decision Making in a nutshell

This article is my summarized point-of-view on Strategic Decision Making. Since I live in Cape Town, South Africa, it also brings a touch...

Wayne Borchardt

Nov 27, 20163 min read

5 Myths of Strategic Decision Making

There is no shortage of examples of failures of strategic decision making. These failures are of two types: 1. business leaders not doing...