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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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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then…
— Susan B. Anthony
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When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you…
— Oscar Robertson
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I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work…
— Edward G. Robinson
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American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It…
— G. Edward Griffin
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The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their…
— John C. Maxwell
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all…
— George Orwell
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Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
— Dodie Smith
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Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned…
— Arrigo Sacchi
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Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I…
— Frederick Lenz
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When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing…
— Mike Greenberg
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I’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and…
— Tom Waits
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In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most…
— James Surowiecki
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