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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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Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as…
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If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do…
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And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers,…
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We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of…
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We commend the commission, under the leadership of Chairman Martin, for recognizing the reality of today's communications marketplace and for fostering an…
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Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process,…
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However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than…
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In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not…
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I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any…
— Murray Rothbard
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Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care…
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We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points.…
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