Thursday, March 24, 2005

Going with Your Gut - Blink Part Two

Author Max Gladwell thinks our decision making skills can be easily hijacked.

Some evidience?

  • Anonymous auditions have increased women's participation in orchestras from 5% to 50%.
  • less than 4% of the general population is over 6 feet tall, yet a majority of CEOs are.

Gladwell suggests that in making decisions, sometimes less information is more noting that, among other things, lone police officers often make better decisions than when in groups. Groups sometimes feel too sure of themselves.

Read more about Gladwell and his book, "Blink", at Recruiting.com

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