Stories by sherilm

Common discourse on mental models is half-baked, mostly useless

Leadership as a Decision rather than Skill or Ability

Why Do People Copy Leaders

The Road to Wisdom by Piet Hein

How to Get Good at Something

Common discourse on mental models is half-baked, mostly useless

How Managers Botch OKRs

How Barnes and Noble Came Back from Near Death

Wisdom is not quite portable – how advice turns into “insight porn”

2023 is the year America takes over Formula One

The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)

At This Wrestling Academy, Indian Girls Are “Set Free”

Knowing by “doing what I don’t understand yet” – the paradox of learning

What's your management style – country club or autocratic?

More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (Or a Life with Less Stress)

United Won’t Make Parents Pay to Sit Next to Children Under 12

How “insight porn” becomes that way

Talking to AI might be the most important skill of this century

Watch Umberto Eco Walk Through His Immense Private Library (2017)

Poetry and Ambition

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