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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. Daniel Kahneman. Five years later, Apple opened its App Store, which empowered anyone, anywhere to design and distribute novel applications.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Articles, books, seminars, videos, online courses…all of them provide pieces to the puzzle to assist individuals to becoming a great leader. Daniel Kahneman. Practice being open. Practice Being Open. Appreciating that others see and feel things differently is a pre-requisite for openness. Cultivate Curiosity.

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Research: Could Machine Learning Help Companies Select Better Board Directors?

Harvard Business Review

Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, observers have bemoaned boards of directors as being ineffective as both monitors and advisors of management. Alternatively, it could be that because of behavioral biases, management is not able to select effective directors as well as an algorithm.

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

I recently finished writing a book about business experimentation and its future. The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Most of the times people won’t mind or won’t care….but

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Keep Experts on Tap, Not on Top

Harvard Business Review

They understand that they don't know anything with 100% certainty and are therefore open to ideas different from their own. The psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrated quite convincingly that we human beings are not the model-optimizing "rational" actors that many economists historically believed we are.