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James Surowiecki has 150 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions,…
— Stephen Covey
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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that…
— David Attenborough
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History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition,…
— Massad Ayoob
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If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as…
— John C. Maxwell
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have…
— Alan Alda
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To approach animals in their most natural, native settings. I have to understand the mysteries of their behavior. With careful preparation, I…
— Paul Nicklen
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To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
— Russell L. Ackoff
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We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the…
— Malcolm X
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The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their…
— John Dos Passos
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The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill…
— James Lafferty
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