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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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A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part…
— Max Delbruck
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The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level…
— David Lack
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In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing…
— Jesse L. Greenstein
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I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population
— David Attenborough
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I think the real, fundamental problem that the Republicans have is, 'How do we get meaner, how do we get nastier with…
— Luis Gutierrez
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I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox
— David Foreman
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Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
— Roman Jakobson
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The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required…
— Unknown Author
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I don't think a comedian should even be concerned with being cool or sexy, as soon as you do, you aren't a…
— Ricky Gervais
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Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam,…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the…
— Fred Brooks
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