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Holiday Reading

LDRLB

In it, Les reveals 10 books that made him think in 2010. In this books, Chabris and co-author Daniel Simons reveal the scientific explanation behind why many people couldn’t see the gorilla in their original experiment as well as 5 other ways our intuitions trick us. The other day I watched a video by LDRLB Guest Les McKeown.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. In a 2010 survey, a record 36% of women ages 25-29 had attained a bachelor’s degree compared to 28% of men of the same age. As of 2010, only 2.4% About the Author: A cultural anthropologist, Andrea Simon, Ph.D., of the U.S.

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Requiring Companies to Disclose Climate Risks Helps Everyone

Harvard Business Review

Nobel laureate Herbert Simon’s model of bounded rationality in decision making explains how this could work. In Simon’s model, decision makers face costs when taking an action, and this makes them stick to “business as usual.”