McKinsey & Company suggests that a way to address lacklustre performance in collaborative work is by clarifying roles related to decision making. Decision-making, although a highly collaborative process, suffers when too many people are “deciders”. Although everyone’s voices will be heard, not all of them should be able to have a final say or have veto power when it comes to the final decisions. A renewable energy company implemented this method to a great success; they sped up their decision-making process and made better customer-focused decisions. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
