The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 5, 2022

“This could deepen existing structural injustices, skew power balances further, threaten human rights and limit access to resources and information.” In other words, there are some things that are just not really possible to know.

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Kahneman Ethics Cost Reference 117

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Daniel Kahneman. For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. 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.

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Daniel Kahneman. In this information age, people are drowning in data. People don’t need more information. Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. In our digitally wired and connected world, we’re all suffering from information saturation. We’re blind to our blindness.

Leadership 105

Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 105

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

A number of people noted that Nobel prize-winner Daniel Kahneman’s work, nicely summarized in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow , influenced their thinking a great deal. In contrast, radiologists obtain little information about the accuracy of the diagnoses they make and about the pathologies they fail to detect. Why is this?

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Kahneman Information Technology Environment Learning-by-Doing 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 22, 2012

To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain deep-discount subscription information, please click here. * * * The best problem solvers see a complex problem through multiple lenses. Here is an excerpt from an excellent article written by Paul J. Schoemaker and featured online at the Inc. magazine website.

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Discount Magazine Article Resources 89

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

New workplace technology makes possible an unprecedented degree of control over working (and sometimes private) life – the New York Times’s account of tough working conditions in Amazon’s offices is a recent example. More and more of human lives are marketized and commodified on technology platforms.

Film 8

Film Drucker Technology Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

The good news is that there are ways to consistently make better decisions by using practices and technologies based on behavioral economics. In part, that is because most managers had relatively little access to accurate information until recently. A final reason is technology. One reason is history.

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Kahneman Groupthink Tools Software 8