Decisions under uncertainties are driven to a large extent by heuristics and biases. How can policymakers take advantage of this knowledge in order to communicate more effectively?
I’m happy to share the publication of a new commentary article by Raffaella Misuraca’s team that addressed this question in depth.
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Have you ever choked when you needed to perform under pressure?
We all know what it feels like: you’ve been building your skill – whether it’s in academics, in your career, in sports, in performing arts – but when the big moment arrives,
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Interview by Mac Prichard: How to Beat Procrastination in Your Job Search, with Ursina Teuscher
Mac’s List is a Pacific Northwest job board and “career hub”, driven by the mission to make the hiring process more human.
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What counts as procrastination?
According to Wikipedia, procrastination means to “unnecessarily and voluntarily delay something, despite knowing that there will be negative consequences for doing so.”
There are productive ways of delaying tasks,
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This past year gave me a fair amount of time to read and listen to audiobooks. Here are five books I found truly impactful, in that they managed to change some of my fundamental previous assumptions and opinions.
Steven Pinker (2018).
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Whenever you have a really big decision to make, the best place to start thinking about it is by identifying what really matters – that is, by clarifying your goals and values. To help with that,
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A practical tool and downloadable template to help determine decision authority.
For the most part, my work focuses on helping people figure out HOW to make good decisions. However, in an organization (or family! or any other group of people),
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Berry Kruijning, JD, LL.M is a leadership coach and much admired colleague of mine. She works internationally but is based here in Portland, where I initially met her. She is an expert on communication and conflict resolution.
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Here are a few books about decision making and leadership that I found worth reading and still very relevant, regardless of how things have changed since they were written.
The first two are not only interesting if you’re leading other people,
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This is an update to my earlier post, where I described my career coaching process in detail. While I have always offered and enjoyed online coaching via phone or video, I used to meet most clients in my office.
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If you’re considering getting help for a career decision, you may wonder what exactly it would look like to work with a career counselor or coach. Here’s a description of the coaching process and tools I often use when I work with clients on a career decision.
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– Or: My Office Is Now Also an Art Gallery.
I’m excited about my new office space. It’s only one door down from the previous one, and still the same size, but it did get nicer: I got moved to the center of the U-shaped Yeon building (still facing east,
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Somehow it became a summer tradition of this blog: here’s my latest list of book recommendations (you can see the lists from previous years here). As usual, they all have something to do with creative decision making and goal achievement.
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I’m excited to share the publication of a new research paper from a collaboration with my colleagues Raffaella Misuraca, Francesco Ceresia, and Palmira Faraci in the journal “Mind and Society”:
Misuraca, R., Ceresia, F. Teuscher, U.,
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Could you make your job better by becoming an intrapreneur? Intrapreneurship means to think and work like entrepreneur, even though you are still a part of a large organization.
For example, you might have an idea of how to improve a product,
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Do you want to give your productivity a boost? This three-step intervention can help you diagnose and beat some of your most persistent procrastination habits.
Step 1 – Assessment: Diagnose the Problems
Each person is different.
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What are some of the most common procrastination triggers? Finding out why you procrastinate will help you tackle each problem one by one.
[Guest post by Bruce Hazen.]
Whether a career transition is one of your own choosing or one that is done to you, beware of a premature rush to job search tactics.
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Our most natural – and laziest – way to think about decisions is to see them as “either/or” questions:
“Should I do this, or that?”
In other words, we act as if we were in a game show,
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How to Make Better Decisions in Imperfect Communities
By Ursina Teuscher, PhD
This video is a short version (13min) of a keynote talk I gave at the at the XII° Convegno Nazionale S.I.P.CO Palermo,
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