Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

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. Here is one example: A few years ago, I gave a presentation on business experimentation to a large audience of executives and entrepreneurs.

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CO2

DECEMBER 11, 2020

So you may not want to hold yourself out as an example and allow in what the rest of the post has to offer you. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they’re very likely to be wrong” – Daniel Kahneman. Ask for concrete examples. Three Barriers to Constructive Feedback.

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CO2

DECEMBER 11, 2020

So you may not want to hold yourself out as an example and allow in what the rest of the post has to offer you. Ask for concrete examples. For example, some people will be devastated by a negative comment, but others maintain a thicker skin. “Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Recently, for example, I found myself in a conversation with a management team that was feeling overwhelmed by all of the stuff that’s been added to their plate without anything coming off. As I talk with leaders, I hear a lot of stories about overwhelm and the perception that there’s not much that can be done about it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

I've been learning a lot from Danny Kahneman's great book Thinking Fast and Slow. Kahneman is the world's leading expert on human judgment and decision-making and the only non-economist to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (he's a psychologist by training), so his insights and conclusions should be taken seriously.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

In a meta-analysis conducted by William Grove and colleagues of 136 research studies, for example, expert judgments were clearly better than their purely data-driven equivalents in only eight cases. Most of these studies took place in messy, complex, real-world environments, not stripped-down laboratory settings. .” Why is this?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

For example, “Among the legacies of the Enlightenment and Romanticism are many common-sense but mistaken assumptions about the differences between the arts and the sciences.” In his latest book, Ken Robinson observes in Chapter 7 that being creative is not only about thinking; it is also about feeling.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Daniel Kahneman. For example, Kyle is an EVP of large bank. I recently spoke with him about his work. We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.” What does the research show us about how we feel our leaders are doing?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

In a recent HBR article , Daniel Kahneman, Dan Lovallo, and Olivier Sibony outline the questions that a decision-maker needs to ask before making a strategic bet. These biases arise from what Kahneman and his long-time research partner Amos Tversky call framing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

One common claim, for example, is that the mental shortcuts we all rely on to solve problems get in the way of creative thinking. Kahneman himself complained that when people think intuitively rather than rationally, cognitive biases lead them to poor decisions. How can you innovate if your thinking is anchored in past experience?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his work on cognitive biases, points out in an HBR article that a team that has fallen in love with its theories may unconsciously ignore or reject contradictory evidence, place too much weight on one piece of data, or make faulty comparisons to another business case that suits its bias.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. For example, for a company with almost no manufacturing capacity of its own, the iPhone could not exist without heavy commitments from key suppliers. Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

For example, many of us intend to save more money, live a healthier lifestyle, or start working on our taxes early instead of at the last minute. If you want to speak to an agent, press 3.” ” However, we know from many other domains of life that people can have the best of intentions but fail to follow through on them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Daniel Kahneman has claimed the following as his favorite equation: Success = talent + luck. Kahneman’s implication is that the difference between moderate and great success is mostly luck, not skill. Great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck. Reduce risk by smart timing – Pay attention to the order of decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Here's a more personal example: For years, Enric Sala was a professor at the prestigious Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. Enric is one of those relatively rare examples of someone who is doing work that he loves, that taps his talent, and that serves an important need in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

For example, another study from the University of Warsaw , found that women described with feminine job titles (e.g. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Many smart people have written about the dangers of cognitive bias and our tendency to pooh-pooh possible negative scenarios in business decision-making, including Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman , HBS professor Max Bazerman , and more recently Stanford and Oxford scholar Jerker Denrell. But it's just a beginning.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

It's inspired by the coming together of disparate disciplines including positive psychology, welfare economics, hedonomics, neuroscience, and marketing, For a long time there have been counter-intuitive signs leading Nobel prize winners like Amartya Sen, Jospeh Stigliz and Dan Kahneman, to question the meaning of prosperity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky. To continue with our example, instead of thinking about how a particular acquisition will succeed, an executive might ask what percent of deals end up being good for the acquirer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky provide perhaps the best theoretical framework in which to understand the phenomenon. The difference between 0% and 1%, for example, is much more salient than that between 10% and 11%, and the difference between 99% and 100% looms much larger than that between 89% and 90%.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Two years later, in 2002, the co-leader of that invasion, Princeton psychology professor Daniel Kahneman, won an economics Nobel (the other co-leader, Amos Tversky, had died in 1996). On the really big questions — how to run the economy, for example — the mainstream view described by Lazear has continued to dominate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

For example, a divested business may inherit assets and capabilities that have been starved of investment by its former parent. For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization. Mergers & acquisitions'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky attributed this tendency to what they called the "availability" heuristic (rule of thumb): our minds give inordinately heavy weighting to the most readily available/recent/vivid data and experiences. A final example comes from the domain of career management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is a terrific example the planning fallacy at work. First developed by Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979, the planning fallacy simply states that people will consistently underestimate how long a task will take even when they have experience with similar tasks taking longer than expected.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

For an example of the importance of controlling pace, let’s look at the case of an executive I’ll call Greg. In Thinking, Fast and Slow , the psychologist Daniel Kahneman explores the intricacies of judgment and argues that different tempos of decision making are better for different challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In searching for an answer it’s all too easy to become guilty of what psychologist Daniel Kahneman calls System One thinking: using fast, instinctive, and emotional shortcuts to jump to conclusions. Let’s look at an example. For example: this year one of our clients wanted to increase their online sales numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky. To continue with our example, instead of thinking about how a particular acquisition will succeed, an executive might ask what percent of deals end up being good for the acquirer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Everyone online can—if they want to make the effort—become an amateur Asch , Skinner , Zimbardo , Pavlov , Ariely , Kahneman and/or Vernon Smith. Every business can —and will—treat their digital media platforms as laboratories and R&D facilities.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Their recent Harvard Business Review article, coauthored with Noble Prize–winning behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman and TGG’s CEO Andrew M. Tom Blaser and Linnea Gandhi, two managing directors at the consultancy The Greatest Good (TGG), are enthusiastic champions of algorithms.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). The widely touted reasons for these failures include censorship by the Chinese government and cultural differences between China and the West.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Ethical consumerism is the broad label for companies providing products that appeal to people’s best selves (for example, fair trade coffee or a purchase that includes a donation to a charitable cause). Ethical information is difficult to process and it is common for consumers to want to remain willfully ignorant of it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

In addition, a cross-cultural comparison revealed that the relationship of pay with both job and pay satisfaction is pretty much the same everywhere (for example, there are no significant differences between the U.S., In a widely cited paper , Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton reported that, in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Daniel Kahneman offers a complex theory of thinking but also gives practical guidance on how to make better decisions — as a result his latest book has received a great deal of attention. You need to build out your idea with analysis, stories, facts and data, references, and examples. How can people put my idea into practice?

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Here are some bizarre, but true examples of the priming effect. You can find these discussed in detail in the brilliant book “Thinking Fast and Slow” by Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman. You can download a stunning infographic that reveals 50 of the most common mental distortions. The priming effect is just one of them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Researchers have confronted us in recent years with example after example of how we humans get things wrong when it comes to making decisions. To use the taxonomy popularized in the last couple of years by Daniel Kahneman, it’s not about putting system two in charge, and keeping system one under control.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow , observed that decision makers get stuck in a memory loop and can only predict the future as a reflection of the past. Thinking about the future is hard, mainly because we are glued to the present.

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