Intuition or Bias? How to make decisions with confidence with Cheryl Strauss Einhorn

03/28/23 • 58 min

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is an award-winning investigative reporter at New York Times and Foreign Policy Magazine, Barron’s who wanted to be sure she could navigate complexity and ambiguity in the high stakes world of finance with confidence and good conscience. To solve for this she innovated an evidence-based decision-making system that uniquely controls for and counters cognitive bias to expand knowledge while improving judgment called the Area method In todays chat, well be talking about specific tools we can use to better trust our intuition - and address our biases and new book Problem Solver.
You can learn more by watching her Ted talk and visiting areamethod.com.

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The Heart of Innovation - Intuition or Bias? How to make decisions with confidence with Cheryl Strauss Einhorn

Transcript

Bill Duane00:00:00.088

Hi, welcome to the heart of innovation Podcast. I'm Bill Duane former civil engineering executive and Superintendent of wellbeing and courage consultant and speaker on innovation strategy. We're going to be diving deep into the internal innovation that unlocked external innovation and the surprisingly practical ways we can become better innovators. We'll be in conversation with innovators from many different backgrounds and contexts including bu