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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

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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How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection

Harvard Business Review

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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