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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. Many NASA and Morton Thiokol managers failed to notice the obvious data suggesting it was too cold to launch the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

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Superforecasting: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner Crown Publishers (2015) How to blend computer-based forecasting and subjective judgment to gain a better sense of what will likely occur Obviously, computers can process, organize, and access more data faster than can human beings.

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Staying Human in the Robot Age

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. “A wealth of information creates poverty of attention,” said Herbert Simon, long before today’s computer-fueled data tsunami. One human agency is management, itself a technology in the broadest sense. What a technology is used for is a choice.

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