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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 uncertain future and…
- Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than…
- 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…
- This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet…
- 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…
- Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things…
- If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.
- Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
- The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic…
- Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task,…
- A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're…
- All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.
- Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common…
- Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most…
- If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get…
- It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to…
- On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves…
- Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing,…
- Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
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