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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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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
— Samuel Butler
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Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with…
— William Westmoreland
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What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who…
— Grover Furr
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American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.
— Elena Kagan
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The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything
— Thomas Nixon Carver
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Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.
— Al Capone
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The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names or by…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots…
— Saul Alinsky
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Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being…
— Saul Alinsky
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The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely,…
— Russell Kirk
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Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.
— Shane Claiborne
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