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Can You "Re-Anchor" Your Next Budget Meeting?

Harvard Business Review

It has been another long, exhausting budget meeting. Anchoring is the psychological phenomenon that makes a number stick in your mind and influence you — even though you think you're disregarding it. Many studies have shown that even obviously irrelevant numbers influence estimates. So what works?