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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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Combating climate change is absolutely critical to the future of our company,Green Cooler customers, consumers-and our world. I believe all of us…
— Indra Nooyi
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Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate…
— Tom DeLay
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Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing,…
— Mark Parker
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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in…
— Tom Peters
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Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild…
— Thomas Friedman
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But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large,…
— Daniel Yergin
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When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would…
— Stephen Elop
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The TMS is evolving into a logistics platform that can handle all nodes, all geographies and all transportation nodes. It's already talking…
— John Murphy
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We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff...…
— Max Brooks
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Ben & Jerry's evolved into what it is doing and is trying to transition its supply chain, but this is essentially retrofitting.…
— Jerry Greenfield
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Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.
— Janet Yellen
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What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.
— John Murphy
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