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Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble…

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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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It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. — George Washington
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or… — Andrew Solomon
In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then… — Danielle LaPorte
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized… — Gerhard Richter
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting… — George Washington
Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand,… — Ellen Langer
I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky,… — Mellody Hobson
In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate… — George Washington
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little… — George Washington
Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations. — Paul Bowles
Steer clear of pot. It's an ambition zapper. Wait till you've made it. When you're 45 buy a bong. But for now,… — Greg Gutfeld

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