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The Inevitable Failure of Organizational Planning

A beautiful excerpt from Herbert Simon’s Strategy and Organizational Evolution: Anticipating the future means detecting, preferably prospectively,novel features in the environment that may affect the firm significantly in the future, …

Choice Under Uncertainty

We use heuristics – rules of thumb – to make judgments. These can lead to certain predictable biases. These can lead to certain predictable biases. For instance, we classify situations based on their representativeness. We judge …

Solution By Recognition

In his autobiography, legendary scientist Herber Simon attempts to explain the difference between experienced decision-makers and novices. What is it that the expert has that the novice lacks? Simon argues the answer is not judgment or …

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