Year: 2021

The decision observer. A noble, yet infamous role that nobody in a corporation would enjoy taking. There’s no win for this person. https://t.co/hjyabaNVTe

Can’t imagine a single leader I know embracing this approach. Let alone convincing his/her peers to do the same during a major strategic decision. https://t.co/KgmYsM7cr5

A Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on what makes a better (at judging and forecasting) leader. https://t.co/QtxTuyK7OU

If you are interested in knowing more about it, this refers to the paper “The Role of Actively Open-Minded Thinking in Information Acquisition, Accuracy, and Calibration” – https://t.co/0An03ymi4Z https://t.co/KVCRIwj8f0

I love this. Are you an expert or a respect-expert? https://t.co/wijHojyA6u

I love this. Are you an expert or a respect-expert? https://t.co/7Qpsiyhnyg

A bias is a systematic error in a specific direction, over and over. When it’s not the case (apparently very often), the error depends on noise. https://t.co/PXw0uDan7t

In other words, you can hire more “high quality” employees to try and improve the output of a company, but what really matters is how each employee reacts to the specific situations that lead to the output.

The key takeaway of the book. The inconsistency in the output of a company, a university, a hospital, etc. is mainly caused by the different personalities of the individuals in charge of the decisions relevant for the output. https://t.co/NGjPVKXngu

@simoncrosby So… Do you want to buy this car or this shiny new AI model??