Tag Archives: decisions

Larry Page on decision making — [VIDEO]

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

One of the interesting things that we’ve noticed is that companies correlate on decision making and speed of decision making. There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions. I … Continue reading →

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CrowdCast CEO Mat Fogarty on how his company is helping businesses make better-informed decisions [VIDEO]

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Good questions, good answers: Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com Download this post to watch the video —if your feed reader does not show it to you. External Links: – CrowdCast – CFO Prediction Market – Matt Fogarty’s twitter … Continue reading →

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The Perfect Profile for Prediction Market Success

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Playing for Keeps – by CrowdCast’s Leslie Fine These executives vocally support a new way of forecasting and embrace the fact that there is knowledge that is not getting to their desks.

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Why we should ban PowerPoint from our prediction market conferences

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

“PowerPoint has clearly decreased the quality of the information provided to the decision-maker, but the damage doesn’t end there. It has also changed the culture of decision-making.“

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Do you have what it takes to run the CIA?

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin: Other qualities [= other than experience in the Intelligence Community] are capacity to make decisions when there are no easy options and to take responsibility for them, situational awareness about the secondary and tertiary … Continue reading →

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Drawing a parallel between our reluctance to seek advice and the experts’ reluctance to take the market-generated probabilistic predictions in an un-discriminating, un-critical fashion

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Robin Hanson: [...] We rarely seek out advice, and when we do it is usually on much smaller decisions. [...] One reason we avoid getting advice is that it lowers our status relative to those who give advice. Of course … Continue reading →

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Decision Markets and Futarchy are solutions in desperate search for a problem to solve and for their early adopters… and that may stay that way well after Robin Hanson’s head gets cryogenized.

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- Robin Hanson: [...] We rarely seek out advice, and when we do it is usually on much smaller decisions. [...] One reason we avoid getting advice is that it lowers our status relative to those who give advice. Of … Continue reading →

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