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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 idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and…
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Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
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Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the…
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At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.
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We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect…
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Talented people are restless at their core.
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...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at…
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Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations,…
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