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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…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
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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…
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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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…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,…
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Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to…
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Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat…
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more…
— Jim Rohn
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With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there…
— Adolf Hitler
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Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it…
— Bill Bryson
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A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward…
— Thomas More
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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe…
— Thomas Szasz
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I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president…
— Barack Obama
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