On 9/23/2011 6:25 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: > So the question is a subset of the category, "Why do decision-makers do > boneheaded things?" > > Because most people are not very smart or very creative, and > decision-makers are representative of most people--not a special class. > Because people follow fads, even in--maybe especially in--business, where > if one person made a million dollars after jumping off a cliff because she > happened to get snagged on a root ten feet down that partially dislodged a > rock that revealed a vein of gold ore, then a thousand people will, without > investigating the facts, follow him off the cliff and land SPLAT on the > ground.
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