What Daniel Kahneman thinks about management

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Psychologist and Nobel laureate (1934 to 2024); shared the 2002 Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences for integrating psychological research into economics; with Amos Tversky, developed prospect theory and the study of heuristics and biases.

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1. 12 Oct 2019

   Our readingOrganizations are a better hope than individuals for improving judgment, because they think more slowly and have procedures that can be controlled, while individual judgment is really hard to fix.

   Their wordsI'm much more hopeful about organizations because organizations think more slowly and they have procedures for thinking and so you can control the procedures individual judgement is really hard to fix not impossible

   ↗Daniel Kahneman | The Knowledge Project #68youtube.com 5th of 12 in this recording

3. 12 Oct 2019

   Our readingA pre-mortem makes it possible to voice doubts when a group is nearing a decision, a point at which dissent is otherwise hard to raise.

   Their wordsit's beautiful because when people are coming close to a decision it becomes difficult to raise doubts or to raise questions people who are flowing the group down when the group's is nearing a decision a perceivers really you know person I mean you know this you want to get rid of them and the pre-mortem legitimizes that sort of descent and that sort of doubts not only legitimizes that too much rewards it

   ↗Daniel Kahneman | The Knowledge Project #68youtube.com 7th of 12 in this recording