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Intuition Can Lead Us Astray, And Isn’t Easy To Overcome

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a problem known in behavioral economics as an example of “dual system theory”, which was famously demonstrated by Daniel Kahneman’s fast and slow forms of thinking. It’s an extremely popular thought experiment, precisely because so many people default to $10, despite that clearly being the incorrect answer.

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The Compound Effect

CEO Blog

There is another great thinker, Daniel Kahneman, who wrote an outstanding article in the NY times that challenges Blink. This is a phenomenon I call "when you think you are brilliant in the stock market, then stop investing in the stock market". + I like his book " Blink ".

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Is Facebook damaging your productivity?

Chartered Management Institute

After all, it's well known that when conducting difficult tasks, what Daniel Kahneman would call system 2 thinking, requires us to be free from distractions. Forging – where people integrate social media into their daily lives and it breaks out of a community manager/marketing dept responsibility. Build and pray approach.

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Managerial Intuition Is a Harmful Myth

Harvard Business Review

I've been learning a lot from Danny Kahneman's great book Thinking Fast and Slow. Kahneman is the world's leading expert on human judgment and decision-making and the only non-economist to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (he's a psychologist by training), so his insights and conclusions should be taken seriously.

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Ethical Consumerism Isn’t Dead, It Just Needs Better Marketing

Harvard Business Review

. “If consumers cared about moral issues,” the argument goes, “then companies and brands that did the right thing would have a larger market share. ” I understand the attraction to markets and their efficiency; I am a marketing professor. We cannot shop our way to a better world.”

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When Human Judgment Works Well, and When it Doesn’t

Harvard Business Review

A number of people noted that Nobel prize-winner Daniel Kahneman’s work, nicely summarized in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow , influenced their thinking a great deal. .” This is true, and what’s amazing is that these are exactly the conditions under which algorithms do better than people. Why is this?

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Reframe Your Strategy to Avoid Hidden Biases

Harvard Business Review

In a recent HBR article , Daniel Kahneman, Dan Lovallo, and Olivier Sibony outline the questions that a decision-maker needs to ask before making a strategic bet. These biases arise from what Kahneman and his long-time research partner Amos Tversky call framing. These will often be the ones that appeal less.