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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 self-handicappers: rather than…

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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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Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical… — William S. Burroughs
I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to… — Ani DiFranco
People should always have something which they prefer to life. — Johann Gottfried Seume
Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure… — Geoffrey Dutton
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are… — James Surowiecki
Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate… — Unknown Author
You have to understand not just what your customers need, but how and where they prefer to access information. — Jay Baer
Give people a taste of Old Crow, and tell them it's Old Crow. Then give them another taste of Old Crow, but… — David Ogilvy
If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to… — Betty Dodson
It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the… — Paul Eldridge
Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to… — Virginia McKenna

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