Author Archives for Blair Kirchner

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Pattern Recognition and its Role in Decision Making

February 18, 2020 7:54 am Published by Comments Off on Pattern Recognition and its Role in Decision Making

At Kirchner Group, the fact that we often work in extreme conditions such as those related to rehabilitating companies and commercializing intellectual property, our track record illustrates the value in pattern recognition as a cognitive attribute and as a business advantage.


Is There Any Explanation for the Way We Act? Part 2: Latest Insight from a Lost and Found Situation

November 19, 2019 2:34 am Published by Comments Off on Is There Any Explanation for the Way We Act? Part 2: Latest Insight from a Lost and Found Situation

This article concludes our report on some recent research related to “civic honesty” and includes a recap of some of our earlier perspectives on ethics and values in business. As you know, this issue is extremely timely for so many reasons.


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Is There Any Explanation for the Way We Act? Part 1: Review of Past Perspectives on Ethics and Values in Business

November 5, 2019 1:50 am Published by Comments Off on Is There Any Explanation for the Way We Act? Part 1: Review of Past Perspectives on Ethics and Values in Business

In this 2 part series, we planned to report on some recent research related to "civic honesty". Given its relevance to our (perpetual) theme - namely ethics and values in business - part 1 will recap some other perspectives that have been addressed in earlier articles.


What Does Ecological Validity Have to Do with Business?

October 4, 2019 5:53 pm Published by Comments Off on What Does Ecological Validity Have to Do with Business?

There are a number of ‘tests’ that the results should meet including the gold standard of medical research: randomized controlled trial. One category of validation is known as ecological validity.


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Behavioral Economics Report Card

September 2, 2019 1:33 pm Published by Comments Off on Behavioral Economics Report Card

On the back of a recent article that summarized “10 Lessons from Behavioral Economics” (#1) – it quickly became evident just how many of the key issues we have covered in our own articles. With this in mind, we went back to see what had been “missed” as per author Shahram Heshmat Ph.D.


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This Will Take Your Breath Away

July 9, 2019 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on This Will Take Your Breath Away

This article revisits the topic with one particular technique (routine) and the documented benefits that are very relevant to the world of business: stress reduction and decision-making. What follows is a direct illustration of our objective with these blogs – namely sharing the information garnered in neuroscience that is directly relevant to business.