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10 Books You Should Read This Summer

Leading Blog

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success by Ron Friedman. By reverse engineering what has worked for others, we can unlock patterns that will work in our own lives. Wherever there is judgment, there is noise.

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An Exercise to Get Your Team Thinking Differently About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow , observed that decision makers get stuck in a memory loop and can only predict the future as a reflection of the past. Crowd sourcing will become a fundamental R&D engine.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

The term “digital firms” refers to those companies that from their inception have focused on digital services enabled by the internet and related technologies, including mobile. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. There are deeper reasons behind the systematic failure of Western digital firms in China.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

It feels like it’s got a little bit of Kahneman and Tversky in it. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control. Suppose you’re an engineer and you’re building a bridge. Lars is famous for that.

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