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Snap, blink and bust: Gladwell, Partnoy and Lehman

Does anyone really believe that if Malcolm Gladwell had called in sick for a speaking engagement at a decision-making class at Lehman that anything would have been different at the company? Continue reading

Posted on July 25, 2012 12:24 PM

The private equity debate: That '70s show

The fallacy of both attackers and defenders of private equity is the belief that we somehow live in static times. Continue reading

Posted on May 24, 2012 1:09 PM

Kay on Havel, Orwell and the greengrocer

Human behavior is larger than any equation, more elusive than any cliché or slogan. Models, like slogans, may be useful but they are easily abused as the means so easily become ends. Continue reading

Posted on December 21, 2011 1:42 PM

Friedman, Feynman and their master narratives

Donning the laurel crown for overheated punditry, the Times' Thomas Friedman has famously become the progenitor of a style of thinking and writing that leans heavily on the rhetorical trope -- 'the earth is flat' or 'the earth is hot' -- to explain complex, ambiguous and profoundly contingent trends. Continue reading

Posted on October 12, 2011 12:15 PM

Prediction and its discontents

I guess you could have predicted this. With the world a mess, prediction as a respectable way to expend mental energy has suddenly become about as popular as Osama bin Laden futures. Continue reading

Posted on September 7, 2011 1:27 PM

Martin Wolf on demography as destiny

Over the weekend, the Financial Times' Martin Wolf published a typically lucid column explaining the turmoil in the Middle East, and a lot more, through the demographics of the various groups of nations. Continue reading

Posted on February 22, 2011 1:12 PM

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