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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 problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
— Dave Barry
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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
— Susanna Moodie
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I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able…
— James Bryce
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
— Walter Lippmann
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The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point…
— Jeff Cooper
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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
— Peter Singer
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Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status…
— Kyra Sedgwick
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We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who…
— Ken Wilber
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Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.
— Ralph Peters
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