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The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster…

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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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It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child… — Carol Bellamy
About fifty million years ago...geological evidence indicates CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now. And life flourished abundantly. — William Happer
Fifty million dollars is not to be sneezed at. Of course, I never catch cold. — Eli Wallach
There's been fifty-million people that died since Sharon Tate died and I got everybody in Santa Claus land chasing me, trying to… — Charles Manson
Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands… — Steve Farrar
The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery… — Edward Bernays
I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and… — George Frisbie Hoar
Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White
What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that… — Tammy Bruce
The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before… — Harry S. Truman
You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans… — John Prine
At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort… — Alanis Morissette

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