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Most of what we do is trade information and ideas (and often electronically). There isn’t the absolute need for us to congregate in offices.

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Given the way our brains are designed, we actually learn less well when we’re presented with a great deal of information all at once.

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Information…represents the raw material from which original thinking emerges – and the more knowledge one has, the better the base.

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In this service-intensive, information-intensive age, every organization’s primary resource is its people.

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…reading information that goes against your point of view can make you all the more convinced you are right.

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Prejudices emerge from the disposition of the human mind to perceive and process information in categories.

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Once people commit themselves to an opinion… they become less able to accept information that is dissonant with their positions.

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Understanding how the mind yearns for consonance and rejects information that questions our beliefs, decisions, or preferences not only teaches us to be open to the possibilities of error but also helps us let go of the need to be right.

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The order in which a person presents information more often than not reveals their actual priorities and the focus of their strategies.

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Information is power, and it is the experts who hold most of the power.

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