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Holiday Reading

LDRLB

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.

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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. I had to step back and think about the themes in my own career and what I’ve been hearing this year from women all over the country. About the Author: A cultural anthropologist, Andrea Simon, Ph.D., Joseph’s Regional Medical Center.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Many large banks, other financial institutions and some large manufacturing companies also had their own economic staffs. Here a few notable examples. But that would be a mistake. This has all changed.

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CMI Highlights – 18 October

Chartered Management Institute

CMI Insights has already spoken with Fiona Apio Matanda , Tom Olliver and Godwin Simon – and you’ll be introduced to Victoria Carr, Harish Kathiresan, Heather West and Jennifer Baines over the upcoming weeks. They are all inspirational, demonstrating what good management looks like and the impact it can have.

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The Daily Routines of Geniuses

Harvard Business Review

Gustav Mahler’s wife bribed the neighbors with opera tickets to keep their dogs quiet while he was composing — even though she was bitterly disappointed when he forced her to give up her own promising musical career. Eliot, who found it much easier to write once he had a day job in a bank than as a starving poet; and even F.

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