Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
EDWARD DE BONOPeople should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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