The Five Fifty

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Meeting time

Want to better manage your time? Start by looking at the meetings that consume the clear majority of the average executive’s schedule.

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Five Fifty: Better decisions

November 2017 – The path to better decision-making means untangling the crossed web of accountability—one decision at a time.

Five Fifty: Decision factories

April 2019 – Want to reduce the staggering cost of bad decisions? Turn your organization into a “decision factory.”

Five Fifty: Gut instincts

December 2017 – Should corporate executives trust their intuition? Sometimes yes, but other times no, says Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahnemann. Four tests can help you decide.

Five Fifty: Genius after the fact

September 2018 – Did you know it all along? Then you may be a victim of hindsight bias.

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Five fifty: Getting small

June 2019 – Small, independent teams are the lifeblood of agile. Here’s how senior executives can help them thrive.

Five Fifty: The need for speed

May 2019 – Changes in what people want, and where they want it, means companies must move fast—without breaking things.

Five Fifty: The legacy threat

April 2019 – Worried about the effect of new digital entrants on your industry and markets? Reinvented incumbents may be an equal threat.

Five Fifty: Buy well

April 2019 – Procurement matters more than you might think. Here’s how to make the most of what and how you buy.

Five Fifty: Discharged

March 2019 – Rethinking how we travel through our cities and towns means tracking the emissions we create as we do. The good news is that traveling...