Most bad decisions aren’t about intelligence; they’re about bias.
Groupthink = harmony over honesty. We go along to get along.
Effective leaders invite challenge, not just agreement.
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Most bad decisions aren’t about intelligence; they’re about bias.
Confirmation bias = seeking evidence that proves us right and ignoring what doesn’t.
Effective leaders invest effort into testing their thinking, rather than defending it.
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Most bad decisions aren’t about a lack of intelligence; they’re about bias.
Take recency bias: we overweigh what just happened and ignore bigger patterns.
Effective leaders zoom out and look for trends, not moments.
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She wanted to pry her late mother’s Oregon vineyard from two of her brothers. Instead, her lawyers were fined nearly $110,000 for citing bogus case law generated by A.I.
Sweaty runner standing in front of the ferry building in Auckland, New Zealand.
MapMyRun route showing the Coast to Coast trail in Auckland, New Zealand. 14.37km
Not a portage at all, but the Auckland city 'Coast to Coast' trail from the Manukau to the Waitematā. Fun to run anyway.
Runner on the foreshore of Panmure lagoon, Auckland.
MapMyRun trail showing a running route of 14.15km in Auckland.
Map showing the Te Tō Waka portage, Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand.
Te Tō Waka portage in Ōtahuhu. Less than a kilometre long, and the most important historical portage in the city.
Man in running gear in front of Green Bay beach in Auckland, New Zealand
Map showing the The Whau Portage from Green Bay to Whau River, New Lynn, Auckland
MapMyRun trail showing a run of 17.14 km in Auckland New Zealand
The Whau Portage. From Green Bay in the south to the Whau River in the north. 2.96km. Interestingly, most portages are really really short (as little as 1km long) so I've added a bit extra onto the runs to make them more of a workout.
Not only would running the portages help me to get to know the history of the city a bit better, but they are also (by design) typically fairly flat. Being interested in history and quite lazy, both of these things appealed to me.
I'm a runner and enjoy finding trails that make exercise a bit more interesting than just pounding the pavement. When a new section of walkway along one of these portages (near where I live) opened recently, it got me thinking.
A portage (as I'm sure you know) is a low crossing between two bodies of water. Here, this typically means a route historically used by Māori to transport waka from one coast to the other to avoid (long and often arduous) detours.
I live in Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) which is perched on an isthmus between the Manukau and Waitematā harbours in Aotearoa New Zealand. Lately I'm become a little bit obsessed with the city's traditional portages.
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Most bad decisions aren’t about intelligence; they’re about bias.
Anchoring bias = the first thing we hear about something often sets our reference point even when later information disproves it. First impressions count.
Effective leaders reset the anchor before deciding.
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What are the six cognitive biases that most typically undermine the effectiveness of teacher reflection and inquiry? Another way to consider the question is to ask 'Who sabotaged my thinking?' Here's a chunk from my latest webinar exploring the main culprits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Skd...
Strong espresso coffee in a tulip cup
Right. I'm into it.
We'd have the iRex ferries by now...
Sigh
Still from Sleeping Dogs (1977), showing a sign "Closed. Ration cards only" at a petrol station.
“The Prime Minister has had to cut short his crucial Middle East talks seeking continuation of our oil supplies… The introduction of fuel rationing has given the union cause a large measure of public sympathy…” Dougal Stevenson reads the TV1 news in the opening scene of Sleeping Dogs (1977)
Runner standing in front of a beach on the Manukau harbour Auckland.
Screenshot of a running trail showing 17.14 kilometres across auckland new zealand
Great run yesterday. Coast to Coast in Auckland.
Check out our webinar series on teaching as inquiry. The next one is 'Bias and the Brain' or the cognitive biases that limit our ability to analyse situations deeply.
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Our next webinar looks at the cognitive biases that often limit human decision making. More importantly, it also looks at how we can limit the impact those biases have on our ability to analyse situations and take action.
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Co-teaching for Differentiation: practical strategies to ensure your #coteaching engages and accelerates all learners #collaboration #teaching #education
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Free webinar on Accelerating Teacher Inquiry 18th Feb 3:30pm NZT.
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In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
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T shirt that says you matter until you multiply yourself times the speed of light squared then you energy.
T shirt that says English is important but biology is importanter
