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James Surowiecki has 150 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement.
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The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this…
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Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.
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Rather than put ourselves down continually, we must work hard to concentrate on our positives, focusing on that which makes us unique…
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Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are…
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A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a…
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Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of…
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We have been told . . . that this life is a necessary part in the course of progression designed by our…
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