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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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Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for…
— Janet Morris
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There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in…
— Samuel Johnson
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The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to…
— Terence McKenna
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I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a…
— James Lee Burke
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We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a…
— David Mamet
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My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification.…
— Vikas Swarup
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He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne;…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by…
— Julian Baggini
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Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
— Bertrand Russell
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These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity,…
— Martin Amis
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The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality…
— James Surowiecki
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