Last month I introduced the concept of learning to “think around corners”; and, how my expertise as a practicing neurosurgeon didn’t necessarily prepare me well for the career transitions I made over the past decade of my medical career. Perhaps I relied too much on my clinical experience and pattern recognition to “predict” what might,

I was recently invited to visit a major academic medical center as a Visiting Professor in Neurosurgery. My intent was not to teach “neurosurgery” but rather to discuss broad topics around decision science, judgement, emotional intelligence, executive communication, and change management. The planned title of my presentation was: “Learning to Think Around Corners: a brain