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by Oz Akan

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Posts in 2025

  • $17 Common Questioning Mistakes We Make!

    17 Common Questioning Mistakes We Make!

    These mistakes lead to miscommunication, frustration, and sometimes loss of trust.

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  • $Six Thinking Hats for Decision Making

    Six Thinking Hats for Decision Making

    A Game-Changer for Decision Making

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  • $The Myth of '22 Times More Memorable'

    The Myth of '22 Times More Memorable'

    Why We Fall for Convenient Claims

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  • $Stop Doing Too Much

    Stop Doing Too Much

    Do a Little Very Well

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  • $Why Your Presentation Isn’t Memorable

    Why Your Presentation Isn’t Memorable

    And How Priming Can Fix That

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  • $Seek Truth, not the Comfort of Being Right

    Seek Truth, not the Comfort of Being Right

    Overcoming Confirmation Bias in Practice

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  • $The IKEA Effect

    The IKEA Effect

    To succeed as a leader, you must invest time in your people and give them the opportunity to solve problems on their own, even if it means allowing them to fail occasionally.

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  • $Certainty: A Misleading Comfort

    Certainty: A Misleading Comfort

    As an engineer/architect/consultant/leader in my organization, I am expected to know many things with great certainty.

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  • $Run Your Own Race

    Run Your Own Race

    We're bombarded with everyone's highlight reels and carefully curated success stories that show the summit but never the climb.

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  • $Wake up, You are a Consultant

    Wake up, You are a Consultant

    If you are not a consultant, you might have the soothing misbelief that what I write below doesn't apply to you—unfortunately, it does.

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