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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America. To survive, we had to make snap judgments about the world and our response to it.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”).

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”).