Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Daniel Kahneman. And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. We are too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.”

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 99

Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Daniel Kahneman. If you’re operating as a know-it-all, you have an underlying belief that that any new stuff really isn’t of much value. Here’s a shocking statistic: two-thirds of senior managers can’t name their firm’s top priorities! I recently spoke with him about his work. We’re blind to our blindness.

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Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 113

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.

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Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

As this argument holds, the short-term pressure of the capital markets, coupled with management incentives tied tightly to stock prices, make it hard for companies to investment in new growth businesses. The halo effect leads companies to assuming their best operators can seamlessly shift into innovation work. Any other ideas? *

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2012

As detailed in Daniel Kahneman's best-selling book, Thinking, Fast and Slow , it is only human to misjudge how much we know — and how much others know. It includes decision analysis, game theory, and operations research. Only such evaluation allows leaders need to know if their experts are overconfident or underconfident.

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Kahneman Game Theory Committee Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky provide perhaps the best theoretical framework in which to understand the phenomenon. We will pay far more for a medical operation that increases our chance of surviving from 0% to 1% than one that increases it from 10% to 11%. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. A Beekeeper's Perspective on Risk.

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Tversky Kahneman Rate of Return Sports 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. Many NASA and Morton Thiokol managers failed to notice the obvious data suggesting it was too cold to launch the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

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Banking Kahneman Document Simon 14