“How Not To Be Stupid”

We’re going to link to this because it’s fascinating and, well, the consequences for business, and business leadership, are significant.

How Not To Be Stupid

Excerpt:

“It took me about a month, and I defined stupidity as overlooking or dismissing conspicuously crucial information. Right? It’s crucial information, like you better pay attention to it. It’s conspicuous, like it’s right in front of your nose and yet you either overlook it or you dismiss it. How not to be stupid, what are the causes of human error—and it took me a couple of months of research just to come up with data points, because most stupidity is ignored or swept under the rug. I studied instances of scientific stupidity and literary stupidity and military stupidity and every other kind of stupidity, as well as two domains that engineer stupidity.”

Read the whole thing, as they say…

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