5. Discipline as a tool
Discipline
Ambition
Trust Collaboration
Discipline is the quality we add to results
Discipline
of quantity
or metrics
Discipline
of time
Discipline
of direction
12. Owning Responsibility
Own your boundaries in peace & war.
Own the process to scale innovation.
Own the role and improve its scale.
Discipline
Ambition
Trust Collaboration
13. Additional pointers
Learn from past and ongoing results.
Consider new frontiers (like technology as tools).
Be diverse in your options.
Be social to collaborate faster.
Be aware of the limitations.
Discipline
Ambition
Trust Collaboration
14. We think for
a purpose
within a point of
view
based on
assumptions
leading to
implications and
consequences.
We use
data, facts, and
experiences
to make inferences
and judgments
based on
concepts and
theories
in attempting to
answer a
question.
facing reality
15. Purpose of Thinking
Goal, objective
Points of View
Frame of Reference
Perspective
Orientation
Issue to resolve
Filling the gap or
solving the Problem
Implications &
Consequences
Information
Data, observations,
facts, experiences
Assumptions
Presuppositions, or
what’s being taken
for granted
Concepts
Theories, laws,
models, definitions,
principles
Interpretation
& Inference
Conclusions & solutions
Elements of
Thought
16. How to think without bias
Game: Choose the one which is larger
54 | 34
Semantic Congruity Task
17. How to think without bias
Game: Choose the one which is larger
69 | 75
Semantic Congruity Task
18. How to think without bias
A K 2 7
Rule: If there is a vowel on one side, there is an even number on the other side.
Game: Choose one card you wish to turn to check the validity of the rule.
Wason Selection Task
20. Inductive vs. Deductive
Ravi is human. 90% of humans are right-handed.
Ravi is right-handed. Ravi is human.
Ravi represents 90% of human race. Ravi is a right-handed human.
21. Understanding ourselves
Fast Thinking Slow Thinking
A bat and a ball together cost INR 101. The bat
costs INR 100 more than the ball; how much does
the ball cost?
23. Understanding Communication
Opt-in
Check the box if you want to participate in
the organ donation program
Opt-Out
Check the box if you don’t want to participate
in the organ donation program
Source: Dan Ariely
25. Bias is any process at any stage of inference which tends
to produce results or conclusions that differ
systematically from the truth. ~David L Sackett
UNCONSCIOUS
BIAS
CONSCIOUS
BIAS
33. Initial Inference Future Assumption
You see a man with a
black eye
A Traffic Officer asks your
car to stop
During class, a student
asks “is this going to be
on the test?”
You see a child crying next
to her mother in a
grocery store
He has been hit or injured in
the face
People who have black eyes
have been hit in the face
He is going to fine me for
breaking the law
Anytime a Traffic Officer
asks you to stop, he’s going
to fine you breaking the law
This student is not interested
in learning the subject
Students who ask questions
like this are not interested in
learning the subject
The mother has hurt the child Whenever a child is crying
next to her mother, she
must have been hurt by her
mother
Situation