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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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I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce…
— Paul Newman
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The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.
— Arie de Geus
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Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to…
— Walter E. Williams
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Listen to your customers, not your competitors.
— Joel Spolsky
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For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched.…
— Paul Allen
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And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to…
— Jim Cantalupo
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The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd…
— Bill Gates
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Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive from your competitors - or your colleagues. What have you done…
— Tom Peters
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Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
— George Lakoff
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What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? Â How…
— Max McKeown
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When you are in a business, you must join associations, (both local and international), so that you can exchange ideas, with people…
— Strive Masiyiwa
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The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A…
— Chris Hedges
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