James Surowiecki
James Surowiecki
James Michael Surowieckiis an American journalist. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
smart mistake crowds
Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
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Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.
opportunity internet series
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed...
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Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.
people company
Companies, like people, don't much like to change.
writing thinking comforting
I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). But I think it's also because I find the possibility of distraction comforting.
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Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
people doe pressure
There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.
science numbers people
Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that most scientific work never gets noticed. Study after study has shown that most scientific papers are read by almost no one, while a small number of papers are read by many people.
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The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.
diversity decision judgement
In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.
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You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.
successful keys people
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.