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Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe…

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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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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do… — Alexander Graham Bell
My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a… — Whoopi Goldberg
When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that… — Helen Keller
Cats hate a closed door, you know, regardless of which side they're on. If they're out, they want to get in, and… — Lilian Jackson Braun
The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. — Frank Lebby Stanton
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished… — Judy Blundell
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. — Barbara Tuchman
Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make… — Joel Osteen
I believe that behind every closed door there is an open space. — Ping Fu
I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door. — John Patrick Shanley
I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I… — Albert Camus
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,… — James Keller

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