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We learn more by examining why a great company fell into mediocrity (or worse) and comparing it to a company that sustained its success than we do by merely studying successful enterprise.
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024 |
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All of us are on different paths, with no right or wrong answer. Comparing yourself to others is a waste of time.
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020 |
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…increasingly the ability of organizations – and not only of businesses – to survive will come to depend on their comparative advantage in making the knowledge worker productive.
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208 |
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A lifetime of exercise results in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.
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024 |
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Relativity helps us make decisions in life. But it can also make us downright miserable. Why? Because jealousy and envy spring from comparing our lot in life with that of others.
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015 |
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That’s just the way we are: absolute-value challenged, cognitive misers who are addicted to comparisons.
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008 |
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Because the subjective value of a commodity is relative, it shifts and changes depending on what we compare the commodity to.
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139 |
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One of the most insidious things about side-by-side comparison is that it leads us to pay attention to any attribute that distinguishes the possibilities we are comparing.
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142 |
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…the comparisons we make have a profound impact on our feelings, and when we fail to recognize that the comparisons we are making today are not the comparisons we will make tomorrow, we predictably underestimate how differently we will feel in the future.
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146 |
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We often understand something better when we see it in comparison with something else than when we see it in isolation.
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134 |
