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- Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence,…
- If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then…
- Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
- The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will…
- Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially…
- In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage…
More Collectives Quotes
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin
- In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I… — Alan Ball
- Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire… — Bob Beauprez
- When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to… — James Belushi
- Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin
- I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take… — Buzz Aldrin
- We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation,… — David Cameron
- What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents… — Tony Campolo
- Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good. — Deepak Chopra
- And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the… — Deepak Chopra