“ Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow Stewart Stafford
“ We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world. Paul Gibbons
“ Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows. Paul Gibbons
“ Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money. Paul Gibbons
“ Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide. Paul Gibbons
“ The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational. Paul Gibbons
“ Those who ignore the destructive potential of new technologies can do so only because they ignore history . Pogroms are as old as Christendom , but without railways, the telegraph and poison gas there… John Gray
“ Science has the capacity to uplift us to heights of undreamed of sophistication and quality of life or to drag us down into an abyss, from which we may never return. I do not believe science and/or te… Jonathan R Banks
“ Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people. Paul Gibbons
“ Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the fir… Paul Gibbons
“ Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-maki… Paul Gibbons
