Teams often make worse decisions than individuals by relying too much on widely understood data while disregarding information possessed by only a few individuals.
and who work as equals. i m a great believer of the doris kearns goodwin school of history, that wonderful book, |team of rivals, where this hick| country lawyer from illinois becomes . president, everybody thinks he s l a bit ofa. not up to it, he deliberately- fills his cabinet with strong people who all, by the way, think they can do the job better than him, and he ends up being one of the greatest presidents of all time because he was confident enough to have. strong people around him. ithat, i think, is a great model. for how you d run a government. too many yes men and women around him at the moment? well, i think people have to summon i up the blood and not be frightenedl to say what they think. do it in a professional way, of course, but that s - what collective decision making is all about once you have reached the collective cabinet decision, that is fine, - you stick by it or you get out.
March 17, 2021
As a recent grad during the 2008 economic downturn, Hadassah Mativetsky ’07, MS ’12, worked as a server at a banquet hall in downtown Binghamton.
The Binghamton University Alumni Association held an event there during one of her shifts, and Mativetsky saw how the University honored distinguished graduates as well as young up-and-comers who were making a difference for their alma mater. The evening’s key messages and convivial atmosphere stoked her Binghamton pride which, it must be noted, was already pretty high.
“I’d be standing on the sidelines waiting to refill people’s water and watching the speeches,” she said. “I had a realization that alumni can be really engaged and have an impact on the University.”