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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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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
— Henry Adams
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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and…
— Octavia Butler
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My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that…
— Kirk Cameron
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It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached,…
— John le Carre
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I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a…
— Unknown Author
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them…
— William Hazlitt
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Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as…
— Cesar Chavez
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The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both…
— Eduardo Chillida
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