No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made. James Surowiecki
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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E.e. Cummings
The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
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Lisa Wingate
It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
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Shauna Niequist
Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.
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Mhairi McFarlane
I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Mark Twain
More Quotes By James Surowiecki
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.
No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is...
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right,...
