"People make mistakes, I understand that, but we're all just stupid - just turn them off!"
"People make mistakes, " says a retired mine superintendent with two decades at Massey.
But I think it's right that when people make mistakes, they take responsibility and that is why I resigned.
That people make mistakes is an unfortunate but simple fact of life.
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For the most part those virtues are on keen display in this book, which in fox-like fashion does not attempt to construct a grand account of human prediction but simply to identify some of the common ways in which people make mistakes and some of the methods by which they could improve.
Consumer groups have argued that this has resulted in bank accounts being paid for by people who make mistakes and go overdrawn, many of whom are the least well-off and the least well-informed customers.
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Or should freedom be the guiding principle, and government let people make their own mistakes?
What bureaucrats don't understand is that people and companies make mistakes in the course of business, but the market will compel change.
Why did all these smart, highly educated people make all these mistakes?
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Repeated trials are likely to be better than one-off experiments in this respect: people make fewer straightforward mistakes at the end of 20 reps than at the beginning.
And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.
Read the most common three mistakes people make on the issue in the HBR blog.
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One of the most common mistakes people make is accelerating principal payments on their mortgages.
"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things, " Rumsfeld said.
Great leaders allow their people the freedom to make mistakes.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is waiting until the end of the month and then using whatever is left to pay down debt or save for the future.
One of those mistakes people make is to rationalize their symptoms for example, to write off the hung-over feeling commonly associated with altitude sickness to jet lag (or an alcohol-related hangover), says J.
One of the most common estate planning mistakes that people make is joint ownership.
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Yes, people will make all sorts of mistakes and continue to believe all sorts of silly things based on incomplete information and flawed models of how the world works.
Even in the incredibly competitive and difficult terrain that U.S.-China business in 2013 presents, the largest companies can still afford to make mistakes, and sacrifice people who waste their money and time with ineffective project plans.
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It is not immediately apparent that we want to cede control over their decisions to other people who will also make all sorts of mistakes and continue to believe all sorts of silly things based on incomplete information and flawed models of how the world works.
Employees and people in general define themselves by whether they make mistakes or not.
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If people don't have the freedom to make mistakes then they will never have the space to make the huge step changes that fuel human progress.
The problem with government economic intervention is simple: while participants in the marketplace are imperfect and make mistakes, the marketplace involves people and institutions from across the nation and even world.
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Everyday across the country, people from all walks of life make the exact same mistakes time and time again.
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How smart people holding MBA degrees from top schools make these strategic mistakes?
As certain dictators in the region continue to hound their people, the international community must not make the same mistakes again.
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