How I flew to Seoul to stay for just 24 hours…

<a href="https://medium.com/@astrid.tuin/what-roger-federer-hyeon-chung-taught-me-about-making-decisions-a49742fc423c" rel="noopener">In a previous post</a>, I talked about making rational decisions through an experience I had at a tennis match and how that should not affect the decision to buy tickets for a similar future tennis match or not. Now I’m back again to tell you that it’s great to be able to think about things rationally and make decisions with the emotion taken out, but that in reality this is rarely how decisions are actually made. As part of an altMBA project last week, I did an exercise of drawing the org chart of the company I used to work for. The insight came when drawing how ideas flow, who can (and will) say Yes or No on top of the org chart. Probably not too surprising to many of you, things can look a certain way on paper, but may work quite differently in the real world… Then, to understand how decisions are really made, it’s time to call on our empathy muscle again, <a href="https://medium.com/@astrid.tuin/time-team-success-in-selling-right-1e1285177c00" rel="noopener">as I briefly touched on last week</a> for a different project. We need to ask ourselves, who are the people involved, what are their worldviews, what story do they tell themselves. I want to illustrate this with a short story of how I found myself flying in and out of Seoul, South Korea, on consecutive days: <a href="https://medium.com/@astrid.tuin/how-i-flew-to-korea-to-stay-for-just-24-hours-3a5d3cbe34ba">Visit Now</a>