Untangling Skill and Luck
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
When we enjoy a good outcome due to luck, we are naturally inclined to chalk up our success to skill. This means that an extreme outcome, good or bad, will be followed by an outcome that has an expected value closer to the mean. Take, for instance, a group of companies that currently have high returns on invested capital (ROIC).
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