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Readings
Published on 06/04/10
by willpate
- Five Keys to Creating an Information Advantage
"The reason that an information advantage is becoming more important in today's world is that information about your customers, your market and your suppliers is one of the few proprietary assets that are available to you." - What You Don't Know About Making Decisions
"Scholars now have considerable evidence showing that a small set of process traits is closely linked with superior outcomes. While they are no guarantee of success, their combined presence sharply improves the odds that you'll make a good decision." - Poor governance on Moody's board?
"Several former Moody's executives who made presentations to its board as the financial crisis emerged in 2006 and 2007 described the board members as incurious, saying they seemed to be there primarily to enjoy the perks and prestige of board membership." - Unrealistic, dithering academics jeopardizing the futures of humanities students
"As a profession, we are enrolling too many Ph.D. students, we have been doing so for decades, we spend far too long in guiding them to their degrees, and we then consign them to a dysfunctional job market." - Barack Obama Is A Fox, Not a Hedgehog
"foxes, in fact, have better political judgment than hedgehogs"
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