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David Solomon strikes more cautious tone on economy, citing ‘uncertainty’ on inflation and geopolitical risks
...That is worrying because managers who do not take advice tend towards overconfidence, according to the Productive Business Index, which Be the Business has been compiling since 2021....
...The downsides of overconfidence are abundantly clear in corporate life....
...Algo-driven investment is often sold as a way to mitigate human biases like overconfidence, impulsiveness, flawed risk perception and susceptibility to random reinforcement....
...Hancock rejected that claim on Thursday, saying: “The same people who are accusing me of overconfidence were at the same time blocking the action that I was saying we needed.”...
...But overconfidence in a potent AI tool will replicate the error of Sir Isaac. Even powerful models are influenced by context like humans....
...Riven by doubts when successful, he could be fooled by overconfidence when on course for failure. But then it’s not required of artists to know themselves; they need to know the world....
...Bad reasons include misaligned principal-agent incentives, poor advice, overconfidence as to one’s own skills and insights and the flattery and trappings that paying large fees to financial services firms...
...And retail investors, especially if they are men, are prone to overconfidence and sensation seeking and thus tend to trade way too often....
...Another reason for multitasking is overconfidence in our abilities — perhaps believing we are in the 2.5 per cent of supertaskers....
...The potential explanations for their underperformance include inadequate ability, insufficient effort, overconfidence and inefficient site visits. There’s a lot to unpack here....
...Rowan, however, warned against overconfidence in what many have dubbed a “golden age” for private debts, saying that “financial literacy . . . has actually gotten quite sloppy”....
...We are swayed by the first piece of information we see (anchoring bias), we do not doubt ourselves enough (overconfidence bias) and we dislike change (status quo bias)....
...Israel suffered from “overconfidence, which led to arrogance, which led to complacency”, said former prime minister Ehud Olmert....
...Trofimov’s Our Enemies Will Vanish pays tribute to Zelenskyy’s courageous leadership but is mostly a fast-paced, witness narrative of the war’s first year, perceptive in its accounts of Russian overconfidence...
...Huggy RaoGood friction, what it does is it arrests overconfidence and myopia. Let me give you an example. There’s a venture capital company here called Andreessen Horowitz....
...“These high numbers could reflect an overconfidence that’s not entirely justified by the limited investments most firms are making in resilience,” wrote the authors of the report....
...Ellen Meade, who served as a senior adviser to the Fed’s board of governors until 2021, cautioned the central bank against overconfidence about its grip on inflation....
...Even Musk seems to be falling prey to overconfidence in his ownership of social media group X....
...The lessons to counter “overconfidence” in leaders listed by Ravi Gurumurthy (“A new year’s resolution for leaders: learn to love uncertainty”, Opinion, December 31) are all practical and indeed do-able....
...Michael FulliloveI asked Jaishankar whether there was an overconfidence about the relationship between Russia and China because Jaishankar’s view is that the Indian role can actually give Putin options other...
...(And How to Fix It): “Traits like overconfidence and self-absorption” might be seen as starlike behaviour when they should be seen as “red flags”....
...The older powerhouses of liberal democracy were born to the tune of high-flying rhetoric, and their disproportionate global power encouraged overconfidence....
...Anne-Sophie Corbeau, global research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, noted what she said were signs of “overconfidence” among European policymakers in their efforts...
...Simon Kuper argues that the children of professors have an exclusive path to power: they grow up in a house where ideas are taken seriously; education happens at the kitchen table and their intellectual overconfidence...
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