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Oliver Buchannon
The Uncertainty Team
🔮 Designing a Decision Architecture

Jul 12, 2023

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10 min read

🔮 Designing a Decision Architecture

Deciding how to decide, when building strategy

John May
The Uncertainty Team
John May, +1
🔮 ‘Psychological Safety’ and embracing discomfort

Jun 15, 2023

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9 min read

🔮 ‘Psychological Safety’ and embracing discomfort

A model for fostering productive discord, not avoiding conflict

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
🔮 'Divergent Thinking' and tools to facilitate it

Jun 1, 2023

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10 min read

🔮 'Divergent Thinking' and tools to facilitate it

Optionality is critical in strategic decision making and it starts with how we think

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
🔮 The Power of Disagreement in Teams

May 17, 2023

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10 min read

🔮 The Power of Disagreement in Teams

How a decision making model transformed air travel safety and tools that help teams disagree

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
🔮 Are we any good at planning?

Apr 14, 2023

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11 min read

🔮 Are we any good at planning?

Future-oriented thinking, the planning fallacy, and how we construct memories to simulate the future

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
🔮 Our dangerous tendency to overcommit and tools to mitigate overconfidence

Mar 29, 2023

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15 min read

🔮 Our dangerous tendency to overcommit and tools to mitigate overconfidence

Status quo bias, tripwires, and wrapping up the conversation on conviction

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
🔮 The role of conviction and narrative in decision making

Mar 16, 2023

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19 min read

🔮 The role of conviction and narrative in decision making

Conviction as a superpower, why we tend to be overly optimistic, and how outcome trees help us map potential outcomes

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
🔮 OKRs and goal setting through the lens of decision making

Mar 9, 2023

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16 min read

🔮 OKRs and goal setting through the lens of decision making

Exploring how goals help teams make better decisions, strategic misrepresentation, and the power of 'Even Over' statements

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
🔮 We're Live! The Uncertainty Project v1.0

Mar 6, 2023

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4 min read

🔮 We're Live! The Uncertainty Project v1.0

We’re finally opening up the first iteration (v1.0) of The Uncertainty Project.

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
🔮 How 'collective illusions' impact group decision making

Mar 2, 2023

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14 min read

🔮 How 'collective illusions' impact group decision making

Why teams should be aware of how beliefs form, the bandwagon effect and techniques for challenging the status quo

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
🔮 Navigating uncertainty, risk, and evidence-based bets

Feb 23, 2023

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10 min read

🔮 Navigating uncertainty, risk, and evidence-based bets

Zero-risk bias, value engineering, and why we're changing our name 👀

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
📘The cognitive illusions that shape our decision making

Feb 15, 2023

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13 min read

📘The cognitive illusions that shape our decision making

How optical illusions help us think about biases, the dangers of confirmation bias, and how Amazon makes decisions

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
📘 Artificial Intelligence vs Human Decision Making

Feb 9, 2023

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13 min read

📘 Artificial Intelligence vs Human Decision Making

Uniquely human factors, confidence, and the power of team forecasting

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
📘 Communication starts before a decision is made

Feb 1, 2023

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11 min read

📘 Communication starts before a decision is made

Pre-decision communication and why we tend to overestimate agreement in others

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
📘 What makes a 'good' decision, good?

Jan 25, 2023

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12 min read

📘 What makes a 'good' decision, good?

Exploring what research tells us a 'good' decision is and how we can focus on what matters

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
📘 High-velocity decision making

Jan 18, 2023

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10 min read

📘 High-velocity decision making

How teams can combat groupthink and make better decisions, faster

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
📘 The Bias Blind Side

Jan 11, 2023

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7 min read

📘 The Bias Blind Side

Our maiden bias and a free poster 👀

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
What's in store for the Blueprint in 2023?

Jan 4, 2023

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6 min read

What's in store for the Blueprint in 2023?

Where we're headed in 2023 and how you can help!

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
Thanks for joining the Blueprint! We have a gift for you! 🎁

Dec 21, 2022

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2 min read

Thanks for joining the Blueprint! We have a gift for you! 🎁

Just a little something to add to your holiday reading

The Uncertainty Team
The Uncertainty Team
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