To follow up on Philippe’s post about Thinking in Time: at IE I teach a course called “Geopolitics” to Masters in Advanced Finance students, and “The Multinational Firm and Geostrategy” to Masters in Management students. Students in those classes sometimes ask me to recommend books to help them “think like an intelligence analyst” and apply [...]
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How to Think like an Intelligence Analyst
Posted in Methodology & Tools, tagged CIA, Cuban Missile Crisis, Ernest R May, Geopolitics, Geostrategy, Graham T. Allison, Hedge funds, Integrated Strategy, intelligence, Intelligence Analysis, Morgan D. Jones, non-predictive strategy, Philip D. Zelikow, Richard E Neustadt, strategy, Timothy Walton on April 6, 2011 | 10 Comments »
The use of history for business decision makers: Neustadt and May’s analogs framework
Posted in Methodology & Tools, tagged decision making, disruption, Ernest R May, Richard E Neustadt, strategy, uncertainty, Use of analogs, Use of history on April 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
One of the characteristics of a disruption is that one has to deal with a new situation for the first time. Hence, almost by definition, one doesn’t have any prior experience to draw upon, and often no existing framework to use. Does that mean that radically new situations must be dealt with without referring to [...]
