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Showing posts with label Kahneman. Show all posts
Thursday, May 25, 2023

The National Academies on Behavioral Economics

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Report cover A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee recently published a report * on the contribution...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Guiding People to Better Decisions: Lessons from Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

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Safetymatters reports on organizational culture, the values and beliefs that underlie an organization’s essential activities.   One such act...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Prepping for Threats: Lessons from Risk: A User’s Guide by Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

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Gen. McChrystal was a U.S. commander in Afghanistan; you may remember he was fired by President Obama for making, and allowing subordinates ...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Making Better Decisions: Lessons from Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein

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The authors of Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment* examine the random variations that occur in judgmental decisions and recommend ways to make...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Implications of Randomness: Lessons from Nassim Taleb

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Most of us know Nassim Nicholas Taleb from his bestseller The Black Swan . However, he wrote an earlier book, Fooled by Randomness * , in w...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Culture in Healthcare: Lessons from When We Do Harm by Danielle Ofri, MD

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In her book*, Dr. Ofri takes a hard look at the prevalence of medical errors in the healthcare system.   She reports some familiar statistic...