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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. Daniel Kahneman. The behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman once noted that “if you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as systematic. I enjoyed my discussion about all things experimentation. “If

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The Hidden Indicators of a Failing Project

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, in his book Thinking Fast and Slow , recounts a bit of a planning pickle he and his Israeli Ministry of Education colleagues encountered when estimating how long it would take to complete a high school textbook on judgment and decision making. Too many projects measure success based on two metrics: time and budget.

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3 Ways to Make Less Biased Decisions

Harvard Business Review

How can we hire, retain, and develop the best people — regardless of race — if we are not even aware of the forces that dominate the choices we make? For example, a good leader may sense that certain behaviors are consistently more dependable in meeting client needs and may develop a “bias” toward those approaches.