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Why Do Prices Rise Faster Than They Fall?

The Horizons Tracker

A new study from the Kellogg School offers a different view, borrowing an idea from psychology popularized by Daniel Kahnemans book Thinking, Fast and Slow. While marketers have long understood the value of nudging consumers toward certain choices, economists have generally assumed that people make the best possible decisions.

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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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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

Daniel Kahneman encompassed this philosophy perfectly when he said, “It’s easy to strive for perfection when you are never bored” (Opening credits, audiobook exclusive). You would be hard-pressed to find someone who has never written down a to-do list on a scrap of paper, and the market for task management software is steadily growing.

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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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Innovating Now for a Post COVID19 World

Innovation Excellence

Maybe the answer will be innovative collaborations between government and industry to protect key industries, or market leaders leveraging scale via smart buying and storage of key raw materials. Firstly, as Daniel Kahneman said, we don’t know our future selves very well.

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Why Companies Are Betting Against Big Ideas

Harvard Business Review

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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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.