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The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research -…

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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

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