English - Author | September 24, 1967 -
It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.
Noreena Hertz
QualityThinkImproveDecision-Making
The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.
PlaceLivingNeverStandardsBring
From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense.
GreenInvestmentMeetWillSolar
I really believe in a globalist agenda, but globalization isn't just allowing companies to trade freely all over the world. It's about what types of rights and responsibilities come with that.
WorldBelieveGlobalizationOver
The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.
WisdomResponsibilityIntelligenceUs
In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.
AgeFeelSometimesAuthorityClearly
What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition; that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus.
PerspectiveMeResearchWindsWithin
Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
ValueDifferenceDisagreementDissent
Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.
BusinessExperiencePeoplePoorCome
I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.
PowerSmartI AmMeLookingNew
People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.
PastPeopleWorldLookingThinking
I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can I get help from a whole range of disciplines.
WorldStartBelieveHelpYouAsk
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Noreena Hertz quotes