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Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers…

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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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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which… — Gerry Adams
Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training… — Annie Besant
I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions. — Albert Brooks
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French… — Warren Christopher
I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters… — Warren Christopher
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. — Winston Churchill
I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the… — Hillary Clinton
No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions. — Subhas Chandra Bose
Ever since I became NATO Secretary General, I have emphasised the need for enhanced political dialogue among the Allies. And I am… — Unknown Author
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end. — Al-Ghazali
I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however… — Hasan of Basra
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation,… — Wangari Maathai

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