Good grief! Who writes this stuff? “Strategy ideation, formulation, and execution is essential for executives looking to drive business in today’s economy. At Columbia Business School Executive Education, we understand this need. To this end, we offer programs that equip executives with a range of tools and frameworks to define and implement their organization’s immediate [...]
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Business School Blather
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Using Head First Rails with Rails 3.x
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Head First Rails is the best intro to Ruby on Rails but to work with Rails 3.x it needs the modifications listed here…
Argument Maps versus Argument Infographics
Posted in Argument infographics, Argument Mapping, Uncategorized, Visual Deliberation on May 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Argument infographics are not really argument maps, but may still be good ways to communicate complex arguments to general audiences.
New book on teoría de la argumentación
Posted in Argument Mapping, Argumentation, Critical Thinking, Education, Teaching, Uncategorized on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fernando Leal and colleagues at the University of Guadalajara have released Introducción a la Teoría de la Argumentación, an integrated selection of pieces intended to assist students and their teachers to focus on argumentation when reading and writing academic texts. The section Parte II: La téchnica de mapeo de argumentos (argument mapping) contains three pieces emerging [...]
St Ignatius on Decision Making – A Precursor to Franklin’s Moral Algebra
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A few months back I discussed Benjamin Franklin’s “moral algebra,” his simple prescription for good deliberative decision making. We know of Franklin’s moral algebra only because he succinctly summarized it in a now-famous short letter to his longtime scientific colleague and friend, Joseph Priestley. In that letter Franklin seemed to suggest that the moral algebra [...]
Decision mapping can make the right choice obvious
Posted in Decision Making, Decision mapping, Uncategorized on April 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Every issue, the Harvard Business Review contains a “case”, a fictional situation in which a senior executive, usually a CEO, has to make some hard decision. The situation is presented in an entertaining narrative, and then the decision problem is posed in a succinct question. Then three or four expert commentators provide insights and [...]
Surviving a firestorm
Posted in Uncategorized on February 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Victoria has been hit this week by the highest temperatures and most intense bushfires in the state’s recorded history. Around 200 dead, 1800 houses destroyed – and it is far from over. As shown in this video, Jim Baruta was caught in the middle of it and managed to survive in a purpose-built bunker. [...]
Rationale – Why does it work? – Semi-formality
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A third chunk of the work-in-progress paper. Draft only. As always, comments welcome. 3.3 Semiformality A third theme in explaining how using an argument mapping package such as Rationale can improve reasoning centres on the notion of semiformality. In a nutshell, the idea is this: human thinking is typically informal. In certain areas, such as [...]
In the law, even simple is complex
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
With the recent release of Rationale 1.3, we also created a wiki for the Rationale community to create and share resources. I’ve just uploaded a case study displaying some reasoning quite typical of the sort of argumentation conducted in small law firms. In this case, the issue is whether tax is payable by the purchasors [...]
Toddler logic
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
How old are people when they first start being able to reason? I vaguely recall reading somewhere in the psychological literature on the development of reasoning skills that kids are able to reason as early as 4. However even that may underestimate how early these skills emerge. Our daughter is 3 years and one month [...]
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