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Groups 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…
- Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence,…
- If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then…
- 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.
- 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…
- Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
More Groups Quotes
- Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of… — David Barford
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- 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
- The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- 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
- 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