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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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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but… — Henry Ward Beecher
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it. — Steve Buscemi
People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best… — Mary Pipher
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be… — George Washington
In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new… — Dick Armey
I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for… — Booth Tarkington
It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for… — Paulo Freire
(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this… — Cesar Chavez
A grateful heart, then, comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all… — Thomas S. Monson
We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants,… — Kevin Garnett
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them. — George Bernard Shaw
Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring. — John McLeod

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