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Group Quotes by James Surowiecki
- Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and…
- Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the…
- Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
- The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will…
- One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
- The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality…
- Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially…
More Group Quotes
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and… — Erykah Badu
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to… — Russell Baker
- Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported. — Jack Adams
- It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in… — Syd Barrett
- There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I… — Drew Barrymore
- A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. — Milton Berle
- There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society. — Jacqueline Bisset
- What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social… — Lewis Black