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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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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually…
— Albert Bandura
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Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I…
— Scott Adams
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I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.
— Nicolas Cage
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I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.
— Hillary Clinton
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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just…
— Ian Anderson
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I always say don't make plans, make options.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for…
— Anita Roddick
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A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose…
— Jim Bishop
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If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll…
— Bob Paisley
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* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change…
— Oren Lyons
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Until you believe you have options, you'll continue to feel stuck.
— Sean Stephenson
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