I Hope I’m Not being Bias About Biases

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” -Mark Twain- I don’t know about you, but early on in my career the subject of bias was rarely if ever discussed.  Now, I hear about

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7 Ways to Turn Worry into Excitement to Get More Things Done

“The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.” -Barbara Brown Taylor- Everybody worries sometimes. Right now, you’ve probably even got a few worries on your mind. You might be thinking about a relationship or a situation at work, causing

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4 Ways You Can Overcome Self-Doubt

Inaction breeds doubt and fear.  Action breeds confidence and courage. -Dale Carnegie- Another opportunity is here to present a topic that is essential in the field of investigating, auditing, and definitely interviewing.  Any topic I address is targeted at our work life, but the applicability of this

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What Is A Decision?

There are those that contend, that in its simplest form, life is a series of choices. This is certainly, in some sense, true. Except that it’s not that simple, because life itself is not that simple. The complexity of life or, rather, living a life, means that

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Decision Making Skills

If you are in the business of doing interviews in investigations, audits, inspections, compliance, or the human resources arena decision making is a foundational part of your profession.  However, the skill-set of well-thought-out decisions based on empirical evidence seems to be waning.  All too often we see

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