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Making Quotes by James Surowiecki
- 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…
- In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.
- 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…
- In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing…
- Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the…
- Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation…
- Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often…
- Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low…
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