"If you thought the advent of the Internet,……" — James Surowiecki
"If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong."
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150 Quotes by James Surowiecki
James Surowiecki has 150 quotes on this site.
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that…
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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…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that…
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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…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or…
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the…
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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…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act…
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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.…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed…
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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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More Advent Quotes
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read,…
— Theodore Bikel
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The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
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We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes…
— Alex Campbell
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Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and…
— Eric Alterman
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Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be…
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If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you…
— Torii Mototada
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With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent…
— Sun Tzu
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid…
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I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do…
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I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting…
— Robert Powell
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Eid is a time of joy, after a season of fasting and prayer and reflection. Each year, the end of…
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