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Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow

by Craig E. Johnson

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Jan 22, 2024 10:41PM

“I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

tags: social-sciences, theory

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“The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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“. . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating snowballs and arbitrary and unpredictable planet-wide winner-take-all effects.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

tags: mathematics

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“You need a story to displace a story.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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“Those who believe in the unconditional benefits of past experience should consider this pearl of wisdom allegedly voiced by a famous ship’s captain: But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic Captain Smith’s ship sank in 1912 in what became the most talked-about shipwreck in history.*”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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