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This section catalogs "tips": short descriptions of books, articles, techniques and ideas useful in making better business and personal decisions.
The tips are organized into the following categories:
| Tip | Topic | Date | Revised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tip 135 | The Perfect Bet by Adam Kucharski | Eeb 2018 | |
| Tip 134 | Tim's Yacht—betting (investing) for a potential huge payoff | Dec 2017 | |
| Tip 133 | Goal Seek method for fast IRR solutions | rev. Oct 2017 | |
| Tip 132 | For Forecasts, Bet on Monte Carlo Methods | 8/1/2016 | |
| Tip 131 | Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving | 11/1/2015 | |
| Tip 130 | Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives | 2/1/2014 | |
| Tip 129 | $3.29 million Watermelon: Fun with IRR | 1/1/2014 | 1/1/2015 |
| Tip 128 | To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure | 5/1/2013 | |
| Tip 127 | Car Loan Interest Rate Calculation | 4/1/2013 | |
| Tip 126 | The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable | 4/1/2013 | |
| Tip 125 | Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 3/1/2013 | |
| Tip 124 | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | 3/1/2013 | 2/1/2014 |
| Tip 123 | The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America ... | 9/1/2012 | |
| Tip 122 | Advances in Decision Analysis from Foundations to Applications | 8/1/2012 | |
| Tip 121 | The Clash of Generations: Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy | 4/1/2012 | 9/1/2012 |
| Tip 120 | The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | 4/1/2011 | |
| Tip 119 | Making Good Decisions | 3/1/2011 | |
| Tip 118 | This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly | 7/1/2010 | |
| Tip 117 | The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It | 7/1/2009 | |
| Tip 116 | How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business | 6/1/2008 | |
| Tip 115 | Computerized Third Party (CTP) for group decision-making and negotiations | 10/1/2006 | |
| Tip 114 | Last Days on Earth (20/20) | 8/1/2006 | |
| Tip 113 | Optimizer's Curse | 5/1/2006 | |
| Tip 112 | Forecasting Shareholder Value: The Missing Objective in Balanced Scorecards | 5/1/2006 | 8/1/2006 |
| Tip 111 | Ahead of the Curve by Joseph Ellis | 3/6/2006 | |
| Tip 110 | Critical Chain Project Management by Lawrence P. Leach | 1/6/2006 | 1/24/2006 |
| Tip 109 | EMV and Shareholder Value | 1/6/2006 | |
| Tip 108 | Decision-making styles of women vs. men | 11/5/2005 | |
| Tip 107 | Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning by Martin Rees | 3/1/2005 | |
| Tip 106 | Justifying Training with Performance Improvement | 2/5/2005 | |
| Tip 105 | The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz | 2/5/2005 | |
| Tip 100 | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | 11/5/2003 | |
| Tip 098 | Risk, Uncertainty and Investment Decision-Making in the Upstream O&G Industry | 7/5/2003 | |
| Tip 097 | 'Portfolio Management: What is the Contribution to Shareholder Value?' | 6/5/2003 | |
| Tip 096 | 'Evolving Inventions' by John Koza, Martin Keane and Matthew Streeter | 2/5/2003 | 2/5/2003 |
| Tip 095 | Markets, Mobs & Mayhemby Robert Menschel | 1/5/2003 | |
| Tip 094 | Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb | 10/5/2002 | |
| Tip 093 | Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch | 2/5/2002 | |
| Tip 090 | John's advice to young people for a great career and happy life | 1/5/2002 | |
| Tip 089 | Good to Great by Jim Collins (exceptional business management book) | 1/5/2002 | |
| Tip 086 | 'Why So Many People Made So Many Brain-Dead Investments' | 8/5/2001 | |
| Tip 078 | 'America, the beautiful carbon sink' by Peter Huber | 12/1/2000 | |
| Tip 077 | Reverse Auctions | 11/1/2000 | 12/1/2000 |
| Tip 076 | 'Making Decisions with Precision' (optimization software) | 10/1/2000 | |
| Tip 074 | The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years | 7/1/2000 | |
| Tip 073 | Re-Creating the Corporation by Russell Ackoff | 7/1/2000 | |
| Tip 072 | Managing by the Numbers by Chuck Kremer, et al. | 6/1/2000 | 11/5/2017 |
| Tip 070 | 'Process Control with Intelligence: A Unified Approach' | 5/1/2000 | |
| Tip 069 | 'Lessons Learned Through Process Thinking and Review' | 4/1/2000 | |
| Tip 063 | The Accidental Theorist by Paul Krugman | 11/1/1999 | |
| Tip 060 | PowerPoint: an Inferior Solution ... for me | 9/1/1999 | 12/1/2000 |
| Tip 059 | Seeing Tomorrow: Rewriting the Rules of Risk | 9/1/1999 | |
| Tip 057 | The McKinsey Way by Ethan Raisel | 6/1/1999 | |
| Tip 053 | The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia | 5/1/1999 | 1/1/2000 |
| Tip 052 | Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions | 4/1/1999 | 5/1/1999 |
| Tip 047 | Economic Risk in Hydrocarbon Exploration | 2/1/1999 | |
| Tip 044 | 'The Perfect Decision', Inc. interview with Ralph Keeney et al. | 10/1/1998 | 5/1/1999 |
| Tip 043 | The Enlightened Manager's Guidebook by Abraham Maslow | 10/1/1998 | |
| Tip 042 | 'Management's New Paradigms' by Peter Drucker | 9/1/1998 | 10/1/1998 |
| Tip 041 | 'Of Mice and Economics' -- People resist a major precept of economics | 8/1/1998 | |
| Tip 040 | Billions & Billions by Carl Sagan | 8/1/1998 | 6/5/2017 |
| Tip 038 | Company Value Added by OBM | 6/1/1998 | 8/1/1998 |
| Tip 035 | 'The End of Cheap Oil' | 3/1/1998 | 6/1/1999 |
| Tip 034 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk | 2/1/1998 | |
| Tip 027 | 5-Steps in the Creative Process | 12/1/1997 | |
| Tip 024 | Participative Management (OBM) | 8/1/1997 | |
| Tip 023 | Best Practices database | 8/1/1997 | |
| Tip 020 | Why Flip a Coin: The Art and Science of Good Decisions | 7/1/1997 | |
| Tip 019 | 'Evaluation of Vision Correction Alternatives for Myopic Adults' | 5/1/1997 | |
| Tip 016 | Shareholders Aren't Everything'; Built to Last; Three Cheers for Capitalism | 2/1/1997 | |
| Tip 015 | Decision Analysis in Projects available | 1/1/1997 | 1/5/2017 |
| Tip 013 | 'Creativity in OR/MS: Creativity-Enhancing Strategies' Interfaces | 12/1/1996 | 3/1/1997 |
| Tip 011 | Wise Choices: Decisions, Games, and Negotiations | 10/1/1996 | |
| Tip 008 | The Ford Pinto Case: A Study in Applied Ethics, Business and Technology | 8/1/1996 | |
| Tip 006 | 'The New Religion of Risk Management' | 7/1/1996 | |
| Tip 004 | Modeling for Learning Organizations | 6/1/1996 | |
| Tip 002 | Making Hard Decisions by Robert Clemen | 8/1/1996 | 8/1/1996 |
EMERGING EVALUATION TECHNOLOGIES
| Tip | Topic | Date | Revised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tip 132 | For Forecasts, Bet on Monte Carlo Methods | 8/1/2016 | |
| Tip 130 | Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives | 2/1/2014 | |
| Tip 126 | The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable | 4/1/2013 | |
| Tip 125 | Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 3/1/2013 | |
| Tip 124 | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | 3/1/2013 | 2/1/2014 |
| Tip 115 | Computerized Third Party (CTP) for group decision-making and negotiations | 10/1/2006 | |
| Tip 114 | Last Days on Earth (20/20) | 8/1/2006 | |
| Tip 113 | Optimizer's Curse | 5/1/2006 | |
| Tip 103 | Trading Chaos: Applying Expert Techniques to Maximize Your Profits | 12/5/2004 | |
| Tip 102 | 'Neural Network Control System for Steam Injection' | 9/5/2004 | |
| Tip 096 | 'Evolving Inventions' by John Koza, Martin Keane and Matthew Streeter | 2/5/2003 | 2/5/2003 |
| Tip 079 | XBRL: eXtensible Business Reporting Language | 12/1/2000 | |
| Tip 066 | 'Swarm Smarts, Solving Complex Problems Using Ant Models' | 2/1/2000 | |
| Tip 062 | Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick | 10/1/1999 | |
| Tip 051 | Neural Networks | 4/1/1999 | 2/5/2017 |
| Tip 017 | Agent-Based Simulation | 4/1/1997 | 11/5/2017 |
| Tip | Topic | Date | Revised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tip 133 | Goal Seek Interpolation Method: Solving for IRR Example | 9/26/2017 | |
| Tip 132 | For Forecasts, Bet on Monte Carlo Methods | 8/1/2016 | |
| Tip 131 | Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving | 11/1/2015 | |
| Tip 130 | Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives | 2/1/2014 | |
| Tip 129 | $3.29 million Watermelon: Fun with IRR | 1/1/2014 | 1/1/2015 |
| Tip 128 | To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure | 5/1/2013 | |
| Tip 127 | Car Loan Interest Rate Calculation | 4/1/2013 | |
| Tip 126 | The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable | 4/1/2013 | |
| Tip 125 | Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 3/1/2013 | |
| Tip 124 | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | 3/1/2013 | 2/1/2014 |
| Tip 122 | Advances in Decision Analysis from Foundations to Applications | 8/1/2012 | |
| Tip 120 | The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | 4/1/2011 | |
| Tip 119 | Making Good Decisions | 3/1/2011 | |
| Tip 118 | This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly | 7/1/2010 | |
| Tip 117 | The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It | 7/1/2009 | |
| Tip 116 | How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business | 6/1/2008 | |
| Tip 115 | Computerized Third Party (CTP) for group decision-making and negotiations | 10/1/2006 | |
| Tip 113 | Optimizer's Curse | 5/1/2006 | |
| Tip 112 | Forecasting Shareholder Value: The Missing Objective in Balanced Scorecards | 5/1/2006 | 8/1/2006 |
| Tip 111 | Ahead of the Curve by Joseph Ellis | 3/6/2006 | |
| Tip 110 | Critical Chain Project Management by Lawrence P. Leach | 1/6/2006 | 1/24/2006 |
| Tip 109 | EMV and Shareholder Value | 1/6/2006 | |
| Tip 106 | Justifying Training with Performance Improvement | 2/5/2005 | |
| Tip 101 | 'Why Monte Carlo Simulations of Project Networks Can Mislead' | 9/5/2004 | |
| Tip 099 | Model and Software Risks | 7/5/2003 | |
| Tip 098 | Risk, Uncertainty and Investment Decision-Making in the Upstream O&G Industry | 7/5/2003 | |
| Tip 085 | Cash Counts | 6/5/2001 | |
| Tip 084 | 'Tvalue' program for time value and amortization calculations | 3/5/2001 | |
| Tip 081 | 'AI Trilogy' (software for predicting, classifying, and optimizing) | 2/5/2001 | |
| Tip 080 | Conditional Cell Formatting in Excel | 1/5/2001 | 4/1/2002 |
| Tip 079 | XBRL: eXtensible Business Reporting Language | 12/1/2000 | |
| Tip 077 | Reverse Auctions | 11/1/2000 | 12/1/2000 |
| Tip 076 | 'Making Decisions with Precision' (optimization software) | 10/1/2000 | |
| Tip 075 | Not 'Estimating' Chance of Success | 10/1/2000 | |
| Tip 068 | Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller | 4/1/2000 | |
| Tip 067 | Dow 36,000 by Glassman and Hassett (includes Buffett reference) | 3/1/2000 | 3/1/2000 |
| Tip 065 | Choice of Denominator in Investment Ranking Criterion | 2/1/2000 | |
| Tip 064 | Calculate Return on Your Investment with Excel | 1/1/2000 | 4/5/2017 |
| Tip 061 | Formatting Thousands and Millions in Excel | 10/1/1999 | |
| Tip 058 | Real Options: Managing Strategic Investment in an Uncertain World | 7/1/1999 | |
| Tip 056 | Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance by Carl Pritchard, Ed. | 6/1/1999 | 1/5/2017 |
| Tip 050 | Financial Models Using Simulation and Optimization by W. Winston | 3/1/1999 | |
| Tip 049 | 'Probabilistic Addition of Gas Reserves Within a Major Gas Project' | 3/1/1999 | |
| Tip 047 | Economic Risk in Hydrocarbon Exploration | 2/1/1999 | |
| Tip 046 | Number. of Combinations of Investment Alternatives | 1/1/1999 | |
| Tip 045 | Competitive Bidding: Bid Fraction | 12/1/1998 | |
| Tip 037 | 'Repealing the Law of Averages' | 3/1/1998 | |
| Tip 036 | Soft vs. Hard Problems | 3/1/1998 | |
| Tip 029 | Monte Carlo Stopping Rule, Part 2 (see Tip 25) | 1/1/1998 | 4/1/2000 |
| Tip 027 | 5-Steps in the Creative Process | 12/1/1997 | |
| Tip 026 | Critical Chain | 11/1/1997 | 3/1/2000 |
| Tip 025 | Monte Carlo Stopping Rule, Part 1 (see Tip 29) | 10/1/1997 | 10/1/1997 |
| Tip 023 | Best Practices database | 8/1/1997 | |
| Tip 022 | 'Analytica' 1.1 for Windows | 7/1/1997 | |
| Tip 017 | Agent-Based Simulation | 4/1/1997 | 11/5/2017 |
| Tip 014 | Gradient Formula in Engineering Economics | 12/1/1996 | 8/1/1999 |
| Tip 013 | 'Creativity in OR/MS: Creativity-Enhancing Strategies' Interfaces | 12/1/1996 | 3/1/1997 |
| Tip 012 | 'PrecisionTree' Software | 12/1/1996 | |
| Tip 005 | Restructuring Costs to Fudge the Numbers | 6/1/1996 | |
| Tip 004 | Modeling for Learning Organizations | 6/1/1996 | |
| Tip 003 | '@RISK' 3.5 for Excel 7.0 | 5/1/1996 | |
| Tip 002 | Making Hard Decisions by Robert Clemen | 8/1/1996 | 8/1/1996 |
| Tip 001 | Correct Setup for HP-12c Calculators | 8/1/1996 | 4/5/2017 |
| Tip | Topic | Date | Revised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tip 126 | The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable | 4/1/2013 | |
| Tip 125 | Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 3/1/2013 | |
| Tip 124 | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | 3/1/2013 | 2/1/2014 |
| Tip 123 | The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America ... | 9/1/2012 | |
| Tip 121 | The Clash of Generations: Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy | 4/1/2012 | 9/1/2012 |
| Tip 120 | The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | 4/1/2011 | |
| Tip 118 | This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly | 7/1/2010 | |
| Tip 113 | Optimizer's Curse | 5/1/2006 | |
| Tip 112 | Forecasting Shareholder Value: The Missing Objective in Balanced Scorecards | 5/1/2006 | 8/1/2006 |
| Tip 111 | Ahead of the Curve by Joseph Ellis | 3/6/2006 | |
| Tip 109 | EMV and Shareholder Value | 1/6/2006 | |
| Tip 107 | Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning by Martin Rees | 3/1/2005 | |
| Tip 103 | Trading Chaos: Applying Expert Techniques to Maximize Your Profits | 12/5/2004 | |
| Tip 100 | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | 11/5/2003 | |
| Tip 097 | 'Portfolio Management: What is the Contribution to Shareholder Value?' | 6/5/2003 | |
| Tip 095 | Markets, Mobs & Mayhemby Robert Menschel | 1/5/2003 | |
| Tip 092 | More Warren Buffett books by Robert Hagstrom | 2/5/2002 | |
| Tip 091 | Toward Rational Exuberance by Mark Smith | 1/5/2002 | |
| Tip 088 | The Essential Buffett: Timeless Principles for the New Economy | 12/5/2001 | |
| Tip 048 | 'A Multifractal Walk down Wall Street' | 2/1/1999 | |
| Tip 007 | A Random Walk Down Wall Street | 8/1/1996 |
| Tip | Topic | Date | Revised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tip 128 | To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure | 5/1/2013 | |
| Tip 117 | The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It | 7/1/2009 | |
| Tip 116 | How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business | 6/1/2008 | |
| Tip 115 | Computerized Third Party (CTP) for group decision-making and negotiations | 10/1/2006 | |
| Tip 110 | Critical Chain Project Management by Lawrence P. Leach | 1/6/2006 | 1/24/2006 |
| Tip 101 | 'Why Monte Carlo Simulations of Project Networks Can Mislead' | 9/5/2004 | |
| Tip 087 | Benefit of project risk management, and three types of model variables | 10/5/2001 | |
| Tip 071 | PMBOK® Guide, Project Management Body of Knowledge | 5/1/2000 | 10/5/2017 |
| Tip 056 | Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance by Carl Pritchard, Ed. | 6/1/1999 | 1/5/2017 |
| Tip 055 | Critical path concept is the key idea for a new drillship design | 5/1/1999 | 12/1/2000 |
| Tip 054 | Practical Risk Assessment for Project Management by S. Gray | 5/1/1999 | |
| Tip 039 | Project Management in the Fast Lane: Applying the Theory of Constraints | 8/1/1998 | |
| Tip 026 | Critical Chain | 11/1/1997 | 3/1/2000 |
| Tip 024 | Participative Management (OBM) | 8/1/1997 | |
| Tip 018 | 'Planning for Crises in Project Management' PMJ | 5/1/1997 | |
| Tip 015 | Decision Analysis in Projects available | 1/1/1997 | 1/5/2017 |
| Tip 010 | 'Project Risks and Risk Allocation' | 9/1/1996 |
| Tip | Topic | Date | Revised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tip 132 | For Forecasts, Bet on Monte Carlo Methods | 8/1/2016 | |
| Tip 128 | To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure | 5/1/2013 | |
| Tip 122 | Advances in Decision Analysis from Foundations to Applications | 8/1/2012 | |
| Tip 119 | Making Good Decisions | 3/1/2011 | |
| Tip 118 | This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly | 7/1/2010 | |
| Tip 117 | The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It | 7/1/2009 | |
| Tip 116 | How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business | 6/1/2008 | |
| Tip 114 | Last Days on Earth (20/20) | 8/1/2006 | |
| Tip 113 | Optimizer's Curse | 5/1/2006 | |
| Tip 111 | Ahead of the Curve by Joseph Ellis | 3/6/2006 | |
| Tip 104 | Geometric Mean and Harmonic Mean | 1/5/2005 | |
| Tip 094 | Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb | 10/5/2002 | |
| Tip 075 | Not 'Estimating' Chance of Success | 10/1/2000 | |
| Tip 059 | Seeing Tomorrow: Rewriting the Rules of Risk | 9/1/1999 | |
| Tip 058 | Real Options: Managing Strategic Investment in an Uncertain World | 7/1/1999 | |
| Tip 047 | Economic Risk in Hydrocarbon Exploration | 2/1/1999 | |
| Tip 046 | Number. of Combinations of Investment Alternatives | 1/1/1999 | |
| Tip 037 | 'Repealing the Law of Averages' | 3/1/1998 | |
| Tip 033 | Answer to the 'The Three Cards' Teaser Problem | 1/1/1998 | |
| Tip 032 | Visual Revelations by Howard Wainer | 1/1/1998 | |
| Tip 031 | Teaser Problem: 'The Three Cards' | 1/1/1998 | |
| Tip 030 | Improve Your Lottery Expected Value | 1/1/1998 | |
| Tip 029 | Monte Carlo Stopping Rule, Part 2 (see Tip 25) | 1/1/1998 | 4/1/2000 |
| Tip 026 | Critical Chain | 11/1/1997 | 3/1/2000 |
| Tip 025 | Monte Carlo Stopping Rule, Part 1 (see Tip 29) | 10/1/1997 | 10/1/1997 |
| Tip 021 | Switch Award Paradox | 7/1/1997 | 8/1/1997 |
| Tip 020 | Why Flip a Coin: The Art and Science of Good Decisions | 7/1/1997 | |
| Tip 009 | The Problem with Girls (See also Tip 31) | 8/1/1996 | 1/1/1998 |
| Tip 006 | 'The New Religion of Risk Management' | 7/1/1996 |
| Tip | Topic | Date | Revised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tip 133 | Goal Seek Interpolation Method: Solving for IRR Example | 9/26/2017 | |
| Tip 132 | For Forecasts, Bet on Monte Carlo Methods | 8/1/2016 | |
| Tip 131 | Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving | 11/1/2015 | |
| Tip 130 | Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives | 2/1/2014 | |
| Tip 129 | $3.29 million Watermelon: Fun with IRR | 1/1/2014 | 1/1/2015 |
| Tip 128 | To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure | 5/1/2013 | |
| Tip 127 | Car Loan Interest Rate Calculation | 4/1/2013 | |
| Tip 126 | The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable | 4/1/2013 | |
| Tip 125 | Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 3/1/2013 | |
| Tip 124 | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | 3/1/2013 | 2/1/2014 |
| Tip 123 | The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America ... | 9/1/2012 | |
| Tip 122 | Advances in Decision Analysis from Foundations to Applications | 8/1/2012 | |
| Tip 121 | The Clash of Generations: Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy | 4/1/2012 | 9/1/2012 |
| Tip 120 | The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | 4/1/2011 | |
| Tip 119 | Making Good Decisions | 3/1/2011 | |
| Tip 118 | This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly | 7/1/2010 | |
| Tip 117 | The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It | 7/1/2009 | |
| Tip 116 | How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business | 6/1/2008 | |
| Tip 115 | Computerized Third Party (CTP) for group decision-making and negotiations | 10/1/2006 | |
| Tip 114 | Last Days on Earth (20/20) | 8/1/2006 | |
| Tip 113 | Optimizer's Curse | 5/1/2006 | |
| Tip 112 | Forecasting Shareholder Value: The Missing Objective in Balanced Scorecards | 5/1/2006 | 8/1/2006 |
| Tip 111 | Ahead of the Curve by Joseph Ellis | 3/6/2006 | |
| Tip 110 | Critical Chain Project Management by Lawrence P. Leach | 1/6/2006 | 1/24/2006 |
| Tip 109 | EMV and Shareholder Value | 1/6/2006 | |
| Tip 108 | Decision-making styles of women vs. men | 11/5/2005 | |
| Tip 107 | Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning by Martin Rees | 3/1/2005 | |
| Tip 106 | Justifying Training with Performance Improvement | 2/5/2005 | |
| Tip 105 | The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz | 2/5/2005 | |
| Tip 104 | Geometric Mean and Harmonic Mean | 1/5/2005 | |
| Tip 103 | Trading Chaos: Applying Expert Techniques to Maximize Your Profits | 12/5/2004 | |
| Tip 102 | 'Neural Network Control System for Steam Injection' | 9/5/2004 | |
| Tip 101 | 'Why Monte Carlo Simulations of Project Networks Can Mislead' | 9/5/2004 | |
| Tip 100 | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | 11/5/2003 | |
| Tip 099 | Model and Software Risks | 7/5/2003 | |
| Tip 098 | Risk, Uncertainty and Investment Decision-Making in the Upstream O&G Industry | 7/5/2003 | |
| Tip 097 | 'Portfolio Management: What is the Contribution to Shareholder Value?' | 6/5/2003 | |
| Tip 096 | 'Evolving Inventions' by John Koza, Martin Keane and Matthew Streeter | 2/5/2003 | 2/5/2003 |
| Tip 095 | Markets, Mobs & Mayhemby Robert Menschel | 1/5/2003 | |
| Tip 094 | Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb | 10/5/2002 | |
| Tip 093 | Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch | 2/5/2002 | |
| Tip 092 | More Warren Buffett books by Robert Hagstrom | 2/5/2002 | |
| Tip 091 | Toward Rational Exuberance by Mark Smith | 1/5/2002 | |
| Tip 090 | John's advice to young people for a great career and happy life | 1/5/2002 | |
| Tip 089 | Good to Great by Jim Collins (exceptional business management book) | 1/5/2002 | |
| Tip 088 | The Essential Buffett: Timeless Principles for the New Economy | 12/5/2001 | |
| Tip 087 | Benefit of project risk management, and three types of model variables | 10/5/2001 | |
| Tip 086 | 'Why So Many People Made So Many Brain-Dead Investments' | 8/5/2001 | |
| Tip 085 | Cash Counts | 6/5/2001 | |
| Tip 084 | 'Tvalue' program for time value and amortization calculations | 3/5/2001 | |
| Tip 081 | 'AI Trilogy' (software for predicting, classifying, and optimizing) | 2/5/2001 | |
| Tip 080 | Conditional Cell Formatting in Excel | 1/5/2001 | 4/1/2002 |
| Tip 079 | XBRL: eXtensible Business Reporting Language | 12/1/2000 | |
| Tip 078 | 'America, the beautiful carbon sink' by Peter Huber | 12/1/2000 | |
| Tip 077 | Reverse Auctions | 11/1/2000 | 12/1/2000 |
| Tip 076 | 'Making Decisions with Precision' (optimization software) | 10/1/2000 | |
| Tip 075 | Not 'Estimating' Chance of Success | 10/1/2000 | |
| Tip 074 | The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years | 7/1/2000 | |
| Tip 073 | Re-Creating the Corporation by Russell Ackoff | 7/1/2000 | |
| Tip 072 | Managing by the Numbers by Chuck Kremer, et al. | 6/1/2000 | 11/5/2017 |
| Tip 071 | PMBOK® Guide, Project Management Body of Knowledge | 5/1/2000 | 10/5/2017 |
| Tip 070 | 'Process Control with Intelligence: A Unified Approach' | 5/1/2000 | |
| Tip 069 | 'Lessons Learned Through Process Thinking and Review' | 4/1/2000 | |
| Tip 068 | Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller | 4/1/2000 | |
| Tip 067 | Dow 36,000 by Glassman and Hassett (includes Buffett reference) | 3/1/2000 | 3/1/2000 |
| Tip 066 | 'Swarm Smarts, Solving Complex Problems Using Ant Models' | 2/1/2000 | |
| Tip 065 | Choice of Denominator in Investment Ranking Criterion | 2/1/2000 | |
| Tip 064 | Calculate Return on Your Investment with Excel | 1/1/2000 | 4/5/2017 |
| Tip 063 | The Accidental Theorist by Paul Krugman | 11/1/1999 | |
| Tip 062 | Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick | 10/1/1999 | |
| Tip 061 | Formatting Thousands and Millions in Excel | 10/1/1999 | |
| Tip 060 | PowerPoint: an Inferior Solution ... for me | 9/1/1999 | 12/1/2000 |
| Tip 059 | Seeing Tomorrow: Rewriting the Rules of Risk | 9/1/1999 | |
| Tip 058 | Real Options: Managing Strategic Investment in an Uncertain World | 7/1/1999 | |
| Tip 057 | The McKinsey Way by Ethan Raisel | 6/1/1999 | |
| Tip 056 | Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance by Carl Pritchard, Ed. | 6/1/1999 | 1/5/2017 |
| Tip 055 | Critical path concept is the key idea for a new drillship design | 5/1/1999 | 12/1/2000 |
| Tip 054 | Practical Risk Assessment for Project Management by S. Gray | 5/1/1999 | |
| Tip 053 | The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia | 5/1/1999 | 1/1/2000 |
| Tip 052 | Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions | 4/1/1999 | 5/1/1999 |
| Tip 051 | Neural Networks | 4/1/1999 | 2/5/2017 |
| Tip 050 | Financial Models Using Simulation and Optimization by W. Winston | 3/1/1999 | |
| Tip 049 | 'Probabilistic Addition of Gas Reserves Within a Major Gas Project' | 3/1/1999 | |
| Tip 048 | 'A Multifractal Walk down Wall Street' | 2/1/1999 | |
| Tip 047 | Economic Risk in Hydrocarbon Exploration | 2/1/1999 | |
| Tip 046 | Number. of Combinations of Investment Alternatives | 1/1/1999 | |
| Tip 045 | Competitive Bidding: Bid Fraction | 12/1/1998 | |
| Tip 044 | 'The Perfect Decision', Inc. interview with Ralph Keeney et al. | 10/1/1998 | 5/1/1999 |
| Tip 043 | The Enlightened Manager's Guidebook by Abraham Maslow | 10/1/1998 | |
| Tip 042 | 'Management's New Paradigms' by Peter Drucker | 9/1/1998 | 10/1/1998 |
| Tip 041 | 'Of Mice and Economics' -- People resist a major precept of economics | 8/1/1998 | |
| Tip 040 | Billions & Billions by Carl Sagan | 8/1/1998 | 6/5/2017 |
| Tip 039 | Project Management in the Fast Lane: Applying the Theory of Constraints | 8/1/1998 | |
| Tip 038 | Company Value Added by OBM | 6/1/1998 | 8/1/1998 |
| Tip 037 | 'Repealing the Law of Averages' | 3/1/1998 | |
| Tip 036 | Soft vs. Hard Problems | 3/1/1998 | |
| Tip 035 | 'The End of Cheap Oil' | 3/1/1998 | 6/1/1999 |
| Tip 034 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk | 2/1/1998 | |
| Tip 033 | Answer to the 'The Three Cards' Teaser Problem | 1/1/1998 | |
| Tip 032 | Visual Revelations by Howard Wainer | 1/1/1998 | |
| Tip 031 | Teaser Problem: 'The Three Cards' | 1/1/1998 | |
| Tip 030 | Improve Your Lottery Expected Value | 1/1/1998 | |
| Tip 029 | Monte Carlo Stopping Rule, Part 2 (see Tip 25) | 1/1/1998 | 4/1/2000 |
| Tip 027 | 5-Steps in the Creative Process | 12/1/1997 | |
| Tip 026 | Critical Chain | 11/1/1997 | 3/1/2000 |
| Tip 025 | Monte Carlo Stopping Rule, Part 1 (see Tip 29) | 10/1/1997 | 10/1/1997 |
| Tip 024 | Participative Management (OBM) | 8/1/1997 | |
| Tip 023 | Best Practices database | 8/1/1997 | |
| Tip 022 | 'Analytica' 1.1 for Windows | 7/1/1997 | |
| Tip 021 | Switch Award Paradox | 7/1/1997 | 8/1/1997 |
| Tip 020 | Why Flip a Coin: The Art and Science of Good Decisions | 7/1/1997 | |
| Tip 019 | 'Evaluation of Vision Correction Alternatives for Myopic Adults' | 5/1/1997 | |
| Tip 018 | 'Planning for Crises in Project Management' PMJ | 5/1/1997 | |
| Tip 017 | Agent-Based Simulation | 4/1/1997 | 11/5/2017 |
| Tip 016 | Shareholders Aren't Everything'; Built to Last; Three Cheers for Capitalism | 2/1/1997 | |
| Tip 015 | Decision Analysis in Projects available | 1/1/1997 | 1/5/2017 |
| Tip 014 | Gradient Formula in Engineering Economics | 12/1/1996 | 8/1/1999 |
| Tip 013 | 'Creativity in OR/MS: Creativity-Enhancing Strategies' Interfaces | 12/1/1996 | 3/1/1997 |
| Tip 012 | 'PrecisionTree' Software | 12/1/1996 | |
| Tip 011 | Wise Choices: Decisions, Games, and Negotiations | 10/1/1996 | |
| Tip 010 | 'Project Risks and Risk Allocation' | 9/1/1996 | |
| Tip 009 | The Problem with Girls (See also Tip 31) | 8/1/1996 | 1/1/1998 |
| Tip 008 | The Ford Pinto Case: A Study in Applied Ethics, Business and Technology | 8/1/1996 | |
| Tip 007 | A Random Walk Down Wall Street | 8/1/1996 | |
| Tip 006 | 'The New Religion of Risk Management' | 7/1/1996 | |
| Tip 005 | Restructuring Costs to Fudge the Numbers | 6/1/1996 | |
| Tip 004 | Modeling for Learning Organizations | 6/1/1996 | |
| Tip 003 | '@RISK' 3.5 for Excel 7.0 | 5/1/1996 | |
| Tip 002 | Making Hard Decisions by Robert Clemen | 8/1/1996 | 8/1/1996 |
| Tip 001 | Correct Setup for HP-12c Calculators | 8/1/1996 | 4/5/2017 |
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