decision-making
The Operative’s Field Guide to Elicitation: Bypassing “The Filter”
In leadership, as in social engineering, the greatest obstacle to obtaining ground-truth intelligence is The Filter. This is the natural human tendency to sanitize information when speaking to authority. When ...
Managing Cognitive Load in High-Performance Leadership
As I mentioned in my recent LinkedIn Article, managing cognitive load in leadership is the difference between a high-performing executive and one who burns out. And ones who get stuck ...
Leading Through Ambiguity: Decision-Making in Cybersecurity Leadership
Ambiguity isn't just a challenge. It's a leadership test - and most fail it.I want to start with something that feels true but gets ignored way too often.Most of us in leadership ...
Conscious Decision-Making: Integrating Intuition, Data, and Values
In cybersecurity, we're trained to identify threats and neutralize them with precision. But when it comes to leadership, the biggest threat is often invisible: our own unconscious biases, reactive patterns, and the ...
Striking the Balance: Effective Cybersecurity Visualization for Informed Decision-Making
In the complex and ambiguous realm of cybersecurity, the power of visualization tools cannot be overstated. When employed judiciously, they serve as invaluable assets, offering crucial data in a readily comprehensible manner ...
A Fifth of IT Decision-Makers Not Confident in Their OT System Security, Reveals Survey
Attacks against operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) grew dramatically in the past few years. Indeed, a 2020 report found that digital attacks against those two kinds of assets increased ...
