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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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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good…
— Jim Bishop
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I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I…
— Bono
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I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to…
— Drew Carey
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The bench press per se is not a risky exercise. When done right, it can help improve upper body strength and size.…
— Bill Starr
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I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for…
— Miguel Indurain
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I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that…
— Jay Sekulow
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I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope…
— Helen Thomas
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I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain.…
— Shuler Hensley
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I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
— Brittany Murphy
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I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or…
— Ed Harris
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I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
— Cillian Murphy
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
— David Foster Wallace
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