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What if the way you think about intelligence analysis is dead wrong? In this episode, I take you inside a real experiment that pitted ...

In this episode, I kick off a new leadership series by starting where almost nobody starts: followership. I explain why the best (and ...

This “season finale for your inner strategist” is all about what happens after the off-site buzz wears off and the slide deck ...

Organizations say they wants critical thinkers — then promote the loudest person in the room. In this episode, I dig into ...

What happens when analysts start trusting the machine more than their own judgment? In this episode of the Folker Lab Podcast, ...

In this episode, we pick up where Episode 1 left off—after we proved that a little structure can beat pure gut instinct—and ask what ...

Most “critical thinking” training is lying to you. It's time to have an honest discussion, turn off the autopilot, and take control of your ...

In this episode of the Folker Lab Podcast, we move past PowerPoint “strategy” and start dissecting the real beast underneath it: ...

In this episode, we pull back the curtain on how well analysts really think (hint: the test scores are…motivating), and we dig into ...

This is the theme song for the Folker Static podcast, in which my siblings and I talk about random topics. They all live in Kentucky ...

This episode goes after the dirty secret of most “strategic” efforts: we're really good at looking busy and really bad at knowing if ...

In this episode, I dust off a paper I wrote during my first year at the Pentagon and translate it into plain English. I talk about why the ...

This episode will permanently upgrade how you think about “getting stuff done.” If your current approach to change—at work, ...

In this episode of the Folker Lab Podcast, we zoom in on the one piece of strategy almost everyone gets wrong: the Future ...

In this episode, I'll briefly share how I went from the USAF Weapons School to the Pentagon and stopped seeing myself as a ...

Checklist for Your Brain: Tactical Critical Thinking turns critical thinking from a buzzword into something you can actually do ...

ACH was developed specifically to aid intelligence analysts. Learn how to apply this commonly used analytic structuring ...

In this lesson I remind students of common errors and biases made during the analytic process and how they can mitigate them.

This lesson builds on the matrix technique. Students will learn how to use this related structuring method to reveal alternatives.