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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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It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.
— Nick Cave
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive.
— Dave Chappelle
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Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're…
— Matthew Macfadyen
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We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters,…
— Glen Hansard
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All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse…
— Delta Goodrem
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus],…
— Robert Barron
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The problem is not that Christians are conservative or liberal, but that some are so confident that their position is God's position…
— John C. Danforth
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But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other…
— Thomas Keneally
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Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
— Ned Rorem
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to…
— Barack Obama
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The dismissive notion that conservatives leak to outlets on the right for ideological reasons ignores the fact that liberals often do the…
— Howard Kurtz
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