 |
…the emotional, cognitive, and social factors that support exaggerated optimism are a heady brew, which sometimes leads people to take risks that they would avoid if they knew the odds.
|
263 |
 |
The poorer man will happily pay a premium to transfer the risk to a richer one, which is what insurance is about.
|
274 |
 |
Unfairly imposing losses on people can be risky if the victims are in a position to retaliate.
|
308 |
 |
When you take the long view of many similar decisions, you can see that paying a premium to avoid a small risk of a large loss is costly.
|
321 |
 |
…people tend to be risk averse in the domain of gains and risk seeking in the domain of losses.
|
334 |
 |
…it is costly to be risk averse for gains and risk seeking for losses.
|
335 |
 |
Stress seems to affect men and women’s decision-making behavior differently. Where men make riskier choices under duress, women tend to choose the low-risk option.
|
091 |
 |
Hiring decisions are always fraught with risk and uncertainty.
|
164 |
 |
Late learning delays the realization of value. It also significantly increases delivery risk, back-loading it to when there is the least time to respond.
|
027 |
 |
…nail it before you scale it. Enable safe-to-learn experiments that are within your risk appetite.
|
080 |
