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Deliberate Ignorance Can Be a Winning Tactic
The Find: Withholding information from others -- and yourself -- can be an effective means of achieving key goals. The Source: “Influence Through Ignorance” in the current edition of The RAND Journal of Economics. The Takeaway: The classic economic model says that knowing...
Tags: Jessica Stillman, Management, Strategy, Ignorance
Blog posts 2008-04-08
How to Manage Ignorance; Inside the Book Peter Drucker Never Wrote
Organizations devote abundant time and resources to knowledge management, but what about ignorance management? The nuggets are often nestled somewhere between what you know you don't know and what you don't know you don't know. So how do you get at them? If the stories of fallen...
Tags: Data Management, Management, Software, Enterprise Software, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Knowledge Management, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-12-12
A Tribute to Ignorance: Your Greatest Leadership Tool
This article is a tribute to ignorance and considered as a greatest leadership tool. The business community neither understands nor respects ignorance though it is one of the most powerful tools as a business leader but in last two years it has been seen that ignorance vastly misused...
Tags: Ignorance, Leadership Decisionworks, Leadership, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
A Tribute To Ignorance: Your Greatest Leadership Tool
It's shameful; the business community neither understands nor respects ignorance - one of your most powerful tools as a business leader. The last two years have seen ignorance vastly misused by heads of companies and their advisors. Before you can get dumbness working for you, you have to conquer the...
Tags: Ignorance, Stever Robbins, Leadership, Productivity, Investment, Management, Finance
White papers 2008-01-01
Handling Illegal Interview Questions
First it is important to assess the intentions of the interviewer. Most illegal interview questions are asked in true innocence - or, better stated, in true ignorance: ignorance of the law, ignorance of what questions are proper, and ignorance of how the information could be used by others in a...
Tags: Ignorance, JobSearchInformation.com
White papers 2008-01-01
Peak Oil's Bell Is Ringing
Praveen Jaiswal submits: “Our ignorance is not as vast as our failure to use what we know”. -- M. King Hubbert by Praveen Jaiswal
Tags: King, Bell, Ignorance, Seeking Alpha, Praveen Jaiswal, United States Oil Fund LP, US Market, Energy
External links 2008-11-16

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Deliberate Ignorance Can Be a Winning Tactic
Deliberate Ignorance Can Be a Winning TacticRE: Deliberate Ignorance Can Be a Winning TacticI think this is a technique using popularly by many governments in a less democratic country. Restriction of information makes the leader more powerful and make the followers more daring in implementing order.To me this scheme is...
Tags: arrogance
Discussion threads 2008-04-10
Christmas wagers; Amazon worldwide bestsellers.(The Book of General Ignorance)(Brief article)(Book review)
Stephen Fry helps make a pile out of ignorance Stephen Fry helps make a pile out of ignorance
Tags: Amazon.com Inc.
Research articles 2007-01-13
News: Employees lose money through mix of apathy and ignorance.
Employees are losing retirement income through a mixture of ignorance and apathy and this could be prevented by better communications, according to Hewitt Associates. [ ] The consultancy firm has proposed a five-point plan that it believes could enc Employees are losing retirement income through...
Tags: apathy, Hewitt Associates LLC
Research articles 2005-07-18
Veil of ignorance rules in constitutional law.
A veil of ignorance role (more briefly a "veil role") is a role that suppresses self-interested behavior on the part of decisionmakers; it does so by subjecting the decisionmakers to uncertainty about the distribution of benefits and burdens that will result from a decision. (1) A...
Tags: Benefits, durability, Hamilton, legislator, president, prohibition, statute, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2001-11-01
How to Manage Ignorance; Inside the Book Peter Drucker Never Wrote
How to Manage Ignorance; Inside the Book Peter Drucker Never WroteWhat you don't know you don't know..."What you don't know you don't know" has been the target of Landmark Education's Landmark Forum for years. Getting at it requires getting really present to what is going on AND letting go...
Tags: Landmark Forum
Discussion threads 2007-12-13
4th U.S. Circuit Court rules ignorance of victim's age no defense
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has joined other circuits in holding that ignorance of the victim's age is no defense to charges of transporting a minor across state lines for prostitution.
Tags: U.S. Circuit Court
Research articles 2007-01-04
US expert panel decries America's "ignorance of outside world"
WASHINGTON AFP ? A panel of prominent US politicians and educators has decried what it called "America's ignorance of outside world," arguing that Americans' reluctance to study foreign civilizations could eventually become a threat to national security. The scathing report produced by the Strategic Task Force on Education Abroad...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, America, Government, Washington
Research articles 2003-11-19
Maradona improving while doctor claims ignorance over cocaine allegations
BUENOS AIRES AFP ? The health of stricken Argentinian football idol Diego Maradona was said to be improving according to doctors who are treating him for a weak heart, high blood pressure and breathing difficulties. However the 43-year-old was still hooked up to an artificial respirator and his personal...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Argentina, Benefits, football, HEALTHCARE, hospital, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2004-04-20
The ignorance lobby. (Scan).(election law reform)(Brief Article)
The American Civil Liberties Union seems to believe that ignorance is bliss. Especially when it comes to voting. The organization recently challenged several sections of a new Florida election law that would place a bit of responsibility on those who pick our future political leaders. ...
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Florida, Leadership
Research articles 2002-01-01
AIDS ignorance high in Singapore: survey
SINGAPORE AFP — One in three Singaporeans believe they can acquire AIDS through a mosquito bite, according to a survey that said ignorance of the deadly disease had not improved in five years. Twenty percent of Singaporeans also believe that HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, can be...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, MARKETING, professor, Singapore, survey
Research articles 2004-12-17
The 1988 tax bill: ignorance is not bliss
The 1988 Tax Bill: Ignorance Is Not Bliss Nearly everyone is aware of the sweeping changes to individual income taxes created by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 TRA. However, three additional tax acts have been signed into law since the TRA of 1986, and yet another tax act...
Tags: FINANCE, income, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes
Research articles 1990-03-01
Fed up with ignorance
I'm fed up with individuals who persist in displaying ignorance regarding politics. World War I was "Wilson's War" a Democrat, young Americans sent to foreign soil to help the worthy cause of France and England and the citizens of Germany; World War II was "Roosevelt's War" a Democrat;...
Tags: Democrat, Federal Reserve Board, Quality, soil
Research articles 2003-10-14
FOOTBALL: IGNORANCE COULD BE BLISS FOR THORNLEY
FORMER Manchester United winger Ben Thornley reckons he will be a big hit in the SPL because he knows nothing about Scottish football. Ignorance is bliss as far as Aberdeen's new signing is concerned because he believes there is no chance of being intimidated by players he...
Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., CAREER
Research articles 2001-08-05
Ignorance, denial wreak havoc in South Africa's AIDS-ravaged province
UFAFA, South Africa AFP — In South Africa's picturesque but AIDS-ravaged Zulu heartland the pandemic is rarely discussed and victims suffer in silence due to a mixture of ignorance, denial and fear. Nokuthula, 54, who has been living with the disease for several years, summed up her predicament succinctly....
Tags: Agence France-Presse, denial, SECURITY
Research articles 2005-11-26
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