{"id":504377,"date":"2024-07-31T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T13:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/?post_type=ftm_collection&p=504377"},"modified":"2024-07-31T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:34:23","slug":"hindsight","status":"publish","type":"ftm_collection","link":"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/collections\/hindsight\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindsight"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/a>\n
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How does looking back move us forward? Big Think Business presents Hindsight<\/i><\/b>: a collection of original essays, interviews, and curated book excerpts featuring some of the world\u2019s most insightful business thinkers and thought leaders. A few of the questions we explore: How can we avoid the pitfalls of the \u201chindsight fallacy\u201d? How will AI connect hindsight with blue-sky innovation? What is the nature and psychology of hindsight? Explore these and other fascinating threads, all connected by our knowledge of the past and our plans for the future.
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Whenever something goes wrong \u2014 in business as in life \u2014 we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.<\/div>\n\n
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When you study the past,\u00a0you need to take into account how it\u2019s different from what you are dealing with.
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David Novak\u00a0\u2014 the cofounder, and former CEO and chairman, of\u00a0Yum! Brands \u2014 celebrates the benefits of active, lifelong learning.<\/div>\n\n
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Carving out time for useful reflection is among the most valuable of leadership disciplines, explains \u201cquestionologist\u201d Warren Berger.<\/div>\n\n
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Warren Berger is a speaker on innovation and the author of several books, including A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas.  <\/div>\n
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Big Think asks startup legend and VC heavyweight Ben Horowitz to reflect on his bestseller “The Hard Thing About Hard Things.”<\/div>\n\n
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AI researcher and author Ken Stanley wonders how our rear-view perspective on success fits into a serendipitous mode of innovation.<\/div>\n\n
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“Business Adventures” by John Brooks was first published in 1969 and remains a must-read for all CEOs.<\/div>\n\n
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Josh Kaufman \u2014 best-selling author of entrepreneurial classic “The Personal MBA” \u2014 explores an essential truth about all decision-making.<\/div>\n\n
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Josh Kaufman is the author of The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. He publishes research on business, applied psychology, and practical wisdom[…]<\/div>\n
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Chip Conley \u2014 founder and CEO of JDV Hospitality and Airbnb\u2019s former Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy \u2014 maps out an inclusive path from hindsight to wisdom.<\/div>\n\n
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Chip Conley is on a midlife mission. After disrupting the hospitality industry twice \u2013 first as the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the second-largest operator of boutique hotels in[…]<\/div>\n
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Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting \u2014 now AI is sharpening that focus.<\/div>\n\n
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The key to understanding hindsight bias is that \u201cshould\u2019ve known\u201d is a false statement: equal parts illusion and distraction.
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Jonny Thomson taught philosophy in Oxford for more than a decade before turning to writing full-time. He\u2019s a columnist at Big Think and is the award-winning, bestselling author of three[…]<\/div>\n
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Hindsight creates foresight and, if we\u2019re lucky in our own lives, it creates some insight as well.<\/p> <\/div>\n

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