When the sky is always falling – fighting catastrophic thinking
May 30, 2024 | George Yang | 1 Comment on When the sky is always falling – fighting catastrophic thinking
A flubbed line during a high-profile presentation, a typo on an email to key stakeholders or a boss’s request for a Monday morning meeting with a subject line of “TBD” can all cause stress, fear and worst-case-scenario thinking, also known as catastrophizing. Dr. Tsasha Awong, an instructor at the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing […]
This is a very insightful article. Thank you for posting.
The Finance Department within my organization have been utilizing story telling needs and requesting narratives from data, be it for budgeting etc., for a few years now. It definitely helps to present a broader picture.
It requires a more in-depth analysis and trends forcasting rather than just intrepreting the data.