Boiling frog

Jasper Oostland | Boiling Frog

“Imagine you want to boil a frog, how do you do it?” John asked Peter. “Well, I would simply place the frog into a pot of hot water.” “Don’t you think that as s…

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Put a frog into a vessel fill with water and start heating the water. As the temperature of the water begins to rise the frog adjust its body temperature accordingly. The frog keeps adjusting its body temperature with the increasing temperature of the water. Just when the water is about to reach boiling point the frog cannot adjust anymore. At this point the frog decides to jump out. The frog tries to jump but it is unable to do so because it has lost all its strength in adjusting with the…

In the late nineteenth century, a series of experiments were performed on frogs to determine the sensitivity of their nervous systems — temperature being one of them. One such experiment found that a…

Boiling Frog (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey) True story about one of the biggest regrets I have in my corporate career. At one point, I was part of a C-level leadership team where the business was facing immense challenges. Our prior two CEO’s had been fired within 18-24 months of one another. We [...]

“If I’d known then what I know now….” There’s this fable about boiling a frog which goes something like this: If you put a frog in boiling water, he will immediately j…

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