A Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian - Author
Born: September 3, 1963

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Malcolm Gladwell

To have an idea meritocracy, one needs to do three things. First, they have to put their honest thoughts on the table, for everyone to look at and everyone to work through. Second, they need to have thoughtful disagreement, by which there are quality exchanges, in which there's open mindedness and the realization that no one has all the right answers. And you can work through that and get to better answers because good collective decision making is better than any individual decision making. And third, you have to have ways of getting past the disagreements if they remain.

Ray Dalio

Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In our teaching we have so exalted the virtues of data-driven decision making that in many ways we condemn managers only to be able to take action after the data is clear and the game is over. In many ways a good theory is more accurate than data. It allows you to see into the future more clearly.

Clayton Christensen

Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, very quick in adopting all your ways and opinions. You will often discover that, as the father is, so is the son.

J. C. Ryle

For more than fifty years, our policy towards Cuba was not making life better for Cubans. In many ways, it was making it worse.

Ben Rhodes

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

Carl Jung

Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

Hank Green

When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market.

Richard Branson

More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.

Alan Watts

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

Ben Horowitz

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

Emily Oster

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

Edward Bond

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

Edward Bond

India needs fresh thinking and quick decision-making to get out of the stifling bind of its galloping population and deadly poverty.

Sucheta Dalal

I mean,he decided we'd be better apart,you know?it wasn't a joint decision.like, if your gonna make a decision about me and my life without consulting me,i'd better be dying and unconscious and you'd better be following carefully written instructions.

James Patterson

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

Guy de Maupassant

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