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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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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've gotta face that was…
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Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it…
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For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has…
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Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the…
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Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our…
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Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about…
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In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell…
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What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll…
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I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for…
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