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

Harvard Business Review

As the second week of May began, Dimon realized, "The last thing I told the market — that it was a tempest in a teapot — was dead wrong," the Journal reports. housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis. Finally, on April 30, Dimon demanded to see the specific trading positions.

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Staying Human in the Robot Age

Harvard Business Review

. “A wealth of information creates poverty of attention,” said Herbert Simon, long before today’s computer-fueled data tsunami. But space for “slow thinking,” in Daniel Kahneman’s term, has been systematically expunged from today’s high-pressure offices. ” Commodification.

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