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APRIL 18, 2013

50 Philosophy Classics: THINKING, BEING, ACTING, SEEING – Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2013) The study of philosophy has as its purpose to know…the truth about the ways things are.”

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AUGUST 1, 2013

NUMBERSENSE: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage Kaiser Fung McGraw-Hill (2013) How to cope with an information blizzard that has become a data tsunami I agree with an observation by Mark Twain: “Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli […].

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APRIL 9, 2013

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions Various Contributors with Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers — and how to make better ones This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review consider [.].

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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. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. Any of these questions can go wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

In March 2013, a U.S. As Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman said: “The odds of limiting the constraints of biases in a group setting rise when discussion of them is widespread.” And while this type of bias may seem less dangerous in the workplace than it may be on the streets of Ferguson, Mo. ,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

billion in the US alone in 2013 according to Charity Navigator). The truth is, most people will (at least sometimes) behave ethically even when they have to sacrifice something, usually cash, for their morals. Billions are given to charity every year ($ 335.15

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Brain science, popularized in Daniel Kahneman’s book , has shown that this type of “slow thinking” is negatively correlated with “fast thinking,” as might be employed when driving a car or solving a simple sum. By the end of 2013, emails were reduced by 60%.

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