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Wayne Borchardt

Jan 7, 20192 min read

Fantastic Frameworks: Decision Quality

“Half of the decisions made in organizations fail, making failure far more prevalent than previously thought” [1] We can do significantly...

Wayne Borchardt

Jun 26, 20174 min read

The even swap method

Sometimes a simple idea is remarkably powerful. The “even swap method” is such. First published in 1988 in HBR [1] and subsequently...

Wayne Borchardt

Apr 2, 20172 min read

Peer pressure for good

Have you used your FitBit or Garmin to compare your steps last week to a friend’s? Increasingly, we have the means, and it seems the...

Wayne Borchardt

Jan 8, 20178 min read

Trick or Treatment?

Firstly, an acknowledgement to Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst for the title of this article. Much of the content in this article is drawn...

Wayne Borchardt

Oct 10, 20162 min read

Ethos, Pathos, Lagos - yes, they still matter for business executives

6,000 years ago Aristotle taught us that messages are persuasive when they exhibit 1. ethos (a credible reference to authority), 2....

Wayne Borchardt

Sep 24, 20162 min read

An inability to Forecast

Most people, including “experts”, are poor at forecasting, but we can improve. Did the outcome of the Brexit vote surprise you? If you...