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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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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and…
— Dan Millman
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On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either…
— Anthony Loyd
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An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust…
— Adnan Pachachi
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Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state…
— danah boyd
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The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.
— Mark Sheppard
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When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues
— Larry Dossey
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Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was…
— Paul Vixie
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We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of…
— Gabrielle Roth
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Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the…
— Jonathan Raban
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