Thinking in Bets

I’m excited to share this guest post from Elizabeth Dunn and Jiaying Zhao, authors of the book, Leave the Lights On: How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Species. Leave the Lights On is a bold invitation to reimagine climate action not as a burden, but as an opportunity to build a brighter future—without guilt, without gloom, and without giving up the things that make life worth living.

I’m excited to share this guest post by Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner, co-authors of The Octopus Organization: A Guide to Thriving in a World of Continuous Transformation. I know you will learn a lot from their insights into how to drive lasting change and a nimbler organization in the face of the kind of continuous change we face in today’s landscape, technological and otherwise.

Simone Stolzoff is a journalist from San Francisco. His new book, How To Not Know, is out this week. I liked it so much, I wrote a blurb for it. Check it out :). I know you will enjoy this guest post from him as much as I enjoyed his whole book. John Cleese, the British comedian behind Monty Python, was once asked by a company to deliver a speech about how to be more creative in the workplace. It’s a great talk, worth watching in full, but there’s one section in particular that has stuck with me.

I’m so excited to share this guest post from David Epstein. David is the author of the new book INSIDE THE BOX: How Constraints Make Us Better, and of the best sellers Rangeand The Sports Gene. You can learn more about his work at davidepstein.com. David is a fabulous writer and I am always excited by his work. INSIDE THE BOX is, like his other books, an absolute must read and is already on my list of books that will make you smarter.

In spring of 2025, I chatted with journalist and applied behavioral scientist Elizabeth Weingarten about her new book, all about how to navigate uncertainty in an increasingly volatile world. I was struck by how relevant the book was to the conversations I was having with clients– especially in an environment when economic uncertainty was higher than it was during the middle of the COVID pandemic.

I’m so excited for my next live, 3-week cohort-based course on Making Better Decisions with Mavenfrom April 20- May 6, 2026. I have lots of practical ways to help you think about and become better calibrated in your decision making as individuals and on teams, and would love to share them with you! I know you might have some questions for me, and may want to get a sense of what the live course will be like. I’d like to invite you to a live AMA session with me on Wednesday, April 8th at 4 PM ET.

My next Maven.com decision making class launches April 20th! I’m so excited to be heading into my TENTH cohort of students! The class was selected as one of Maven’s Top 100 classes in Leadership. I am so honored to be selected. I have loved every cohort and still meet with the students regularly through an alumni group comprised of students from all nine previous cohorts. I love seeing how they are putting the lessons into action.

How to Disagree Better, out this week, and is a brilliant, must-read by Julia Minson, a Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the founder of Disagreeing Better, LLC–a behavioral science consultancy and training firm. Julia is a decision scientist with research interests in conflict management, negotiations, and judgment and decision making.

As part of the kick-off to the launch of my next cohort on Maven which starts April 20th, I’ll be teaching a free, thirty minute class on data wisdom tomorrow, Tuesday, March 24th at 4 pm eastern, . Please join me by signing up here. Here’s what you’ll learn in the lighting lesson: Why Smart Leaders Misread Data Spot the common traps that lead even experienced leaders to misinterpret data. The Importance of Asking, “Out of How Many?” Counts are one of the most common forms of data presentation.

As part of the kick-off to the launch of my next cohort on Maven which starts April 20th, I’ll be teaching a free, thirty minute class on data wisdom on Tuesday, March 24th at 4 pm eastern, . Please join me by signing up here. Here’s what you’ll learn in the lighting lesson: Why Smart Leaders Misread Data Spot the common traps that lead even experienced leaders to misinterpret data. The Importance of Asking, “Out of How Many?” Counts are one of the most common forms of data presentation.