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• Web Analytics: An Hour A Day

  Published: June 6, 2007, 4:00 am

  Tags: Analytics, Customer Satisfaction, Marketing Tips, Voice Of Customer, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Advanced Analytics, Web Insights, Usability, Search Engine Marketing, Blogging, Analytics Book, Web Analytics Book, Web Analytics An Hour A Day, Web Decision Making, Web Met

  up your own analytics and decision making journey. How should you approach web analytics? What should you worry about when selecting a web analytics tools? What’s the optimal organization structure (and who should own web analytics!)? What to look for in great web analysts? What ideas to test first on your site? Should you hire

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• blah blah Monetize Your Podcast blah - wait, what?

  Published: July 18, 2007, 3:50 pm

  Tags: Podcasting, High Ups, Decision Making, Ability, Revolutionize, Podcast, Sponsorship, Offer, Show This, Lucky, Accident, Iphone, Joseph, Jaffe, Matter, Niche, Bet, Listenership, Includes

  includes some high-ups with decision-making ability. Personally, if I found the right audience for a client, I’d drop $250 for an episode, easy. All you’d have to do was reach me, and you’ve had that ability all along– it comes built into the show you do. So get to it.

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• Decision-making: Why you shouldn't let feelings play into tough decisions

  Published: August 17, 2007, 10:23 am

  Tags: Advice, Decision Making, Mind Hacks, Psychology, Science

  people feel before and after making a big decision. What they discovered would please Spock -- consulting your feelings when you decide something will lead you astray. Participants took part in a two-person negotiation for money that would allow the researchers to observe negotiation style as well as measure how much regret the participants

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• The Power of Priming

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:31 am

  Tags: Conference On Disarmament, United Nations, Thornton, Psychology, Priming, Perceptions, Decision Making, Diplomacy

  of mind. Of course, I'm not making the claim that simply changing the room would be the difference between success and failure in the CD. But it might be a start. Ashley ThorntonReferencesBenedict Carey, Who's Minding the Mind, The New York Times, 31 July

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• 0800-HOW-IS-MY-DIPLOMACY? Technology and humanitarian action

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:47 am

  Tags: Humanitarian Impacts, Humanitarian Action, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Decision Making, Borrie, Human Security, Altruism, Civilians, Accountability

  technology on international decision-making. Patricia Lewis, for instance, has offered some of her personal observations about the changes mobile phones and Blackberries have wrought on interactions in multilateral meetings she's attended (See "Zapped! Mobile technology in the conference chamber").There seems little doubt that continued

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• "Cognitive Ergonomics"?

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:41 am

  Tags: Social Interactions, Human Nature, Disarmament As Humanitarian Action, Decision Making, Cognitive Biases, Borrie, Intuitions, Cognitive Ergonomics, Diplomacy

  In 10 minutes of off-the-cuff concluding remarks from our 25 May Disarmament Insight symposium on Human Security, Human Nature and Trust-building in Negotiations', John Borrie talked about what he calls cognitive ergonomics and the relevance of the concept in thinking about the structures and procedures in multilateral negotiations. Not

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• Does Terrorism Work?

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:32 am

  Tags: Thornton, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Correspondent Inference Theory, Abrahms, Decision Making, Cognitive Biases, Civilians

  and how they influence our decision-making. I looked at the confirmation bias, which is the human tendency to seek out and process information that confirms our preexisting beliefs. I also examined the self-serving attributional bias; when we blame unfavorable outcomes on external causes but take credit for positive ones. A recent article I

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• Cognitive Dissonance: Don't Mention the War

  Published: July 11, 2007, 6:46 am

  Tags: Social Interactions, Iraq, Blame Game, Thornton, Perceptions, Decision Making, Cognitive Dissonance

  behavior and the decisions they're making (or not making) in the present.Like everyone else, disarmament diplomats also experience cognitive dissonance in their work. Awareness of this phenomenon is important because valuable time can be wasted while playing the blame game and trying to best justify our mistakes.Ashley

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• Zapped! Mobile technology in the conference chamber

  Published: July 4, 2007, 6:13 am

  Tags: Social Interactions, Blackberry, Conference, Negotiators, Technology, Arms Control, Decision Making, Multilateral Negotiations, Mobile Phone, Lewis, Diplomacy

  when the speaker is making a statement on behalf of a group of states. In a recent meeting I attended, a regional group convenor took the floor to respond to a critical point made by the chairman, and, immediately, his phone gave a message signal and he looked at it. Again maybe my imagination, but this normally astute, to-the-point

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• Fooled by randomness?

  Published: September 10, 2007, 10:22 am

  Tags: Thornton, Complexity Theory, Psychology, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Decision Making, Cognitive Biases, Borrie, Multilateral Negotiations, Diplomacy

  world, and thus affect our decision making.- A second problem is that the world isn't a smooth, linear narrative. That is, the world doesn't conform with our expectations, although we may fool ourselves into thinking so. That's because, as human beings, we have brains that are very good at re-shaping our expectations in hindsight without even

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• How do patients choose best treatment for their disease?

  Published: October 4, 2007, 1:54 am

  Tags: Health, Decision Making, Disease Treatment

  The diagnosis has come in, and it's not good. Worse, the patient has to choose from treatment options that are sometimes contradictory and risky. None of them promises complete success. How do patients make an informed decision, choosing the very best treatment for their own healthcare?

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• Solving problems outside your comfort zone

  Published: October 10, 2007, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Business, Decision Making, Management, Problem Solving

  I sometimes think that one factor in success as a business or as a human being has a lot to do with what kind of problems you’re comfortable solving — and how you get better at addressing the stuff that falls outside that comfort zone. History is littered with revolutionaries who couldn’t run the country they’d

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• Bernanke Explains Decision-Making

  Published: October 19, 2007, 1:11 pm

  Tags: Bernanke, Explains, Decision Making

  WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve policymakers weigh a broad range of economic scenarios to determine the right moves on interest rates during times of uncertainty, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday.

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• Six Rules For Creating A Data Driven Boss!

  Published: October 24, 2007, 3:11 am

  Tags: Analytics, Leadership, Marketing Tips, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Web Insights, Search Engine Marketing, Data Driven Decision Making, Making Decisions Data, Web Analytics 2 0, Web Analytics Data Strategy

  mindset about how decisions should be made. Do an inventory, ask around, how many decisions have been made based on data that can be traced directly to have added value to the bottom line revenue numbers? [Bosses: Great filter to apply for Consultants you hire as well, ask them that last question.] It is important, nay critical, to

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• Lives not worth living and voluntary euthanasia

  Published: October 27, 2007, 9:16 am

  Tags: Depression, End Of Life Decision Making, Quality Of Life, Physician Assisted Suicide, Voluntary Euthanasia

  patients' end-of-life decision making. The question surely is not whether their condition is terminal but whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the condition that renders their life not worth living (in their judgment!) can be fixed in the foreseeable future. If the answer to this question is 'no', or 'most likely not', it does not

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