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The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

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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…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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 city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy… — Herb Caen
The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the… — Unknown Author
Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been… — Lance Secretan
Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid… — Sylvia Plath
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Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking… — Ava Gardner
For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly. — D.B.C. Pierre
There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic… — Unknown Author
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. — Walter Savage Landor
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry
In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren… — Frank Chodorov
Italy's siren call lures us more and more. — Frances Mayes

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