"The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that……" — James Surowiecki
"The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted."
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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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