"What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known,……" — James Surowiecki
"What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry."
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150 Quotes by James Surowiecki
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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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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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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone,…
— Emily Greene Balch
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing…
— Eli Broad
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on…
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The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose…
— Herman Cain
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Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow…
— Herman Cain
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social…
— Noam Chomsky
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
— Maya Angelou
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
— Rajneesh
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Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.
— Robert Breault
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So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the…
— Michael Chertoff
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