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As they say in systems theory, that which optimizes one part of the system necessarily undermined the system as a whole.
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135 |
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In theory, confidence and competence go hand in hand. In practice, they often diverge.
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37 |
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Just because you know [sunk cost is] an error in theory doesn’t mean that you won’t fall for it when you are facing down these kinds of decisions.
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92 |
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…the ground where doctrinaire theorists and armchair admirals fall short is the decisive terrain from which true leaders emerge.
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031 |
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For any theory to be scientific, it must be stated in such a way that it can be shown to be false as well as true.
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150 |
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Dissonance theory would therefore predict that when victims are armed and able to strike back, perpetrators will feel less need to reduce dissonance by belittling them than they do when their victims are helpless.
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271 |
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It’s a big open secret among the vast majority of public-company executives that the theory of shareholder primacy and the pressure Wall Street exerts on them are actually bad for business.
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078 |
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Great entrepreneurial innovations have been achieved by converting an existing, theoretical proposition into an effective business.
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118 |
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An expert must be bold if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.
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149 |
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A state of perfect information is of course theoretical… but in more and more areas of life, we’re starting to get closer to absolute values, which makes us less dependent on relative evaluations.
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