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Douglas W. Hubbard · 2014
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
What this book knows
Anything that matters can be measured — uncertainty is not ignorance but a quantity reducible by observation and probability.
mind-and-cognition
The average executive thinks 'measure' is synonymous with 'count' — not just a reduction in uncertainty.
VLA-FD2EBBF4-RC-229Not knowing exact quantities is not the same as knowing nothing of any value.
VLA-FD2EBBF4-RC-120For the most uncertain variables, simple decomposition reduced error by a factor as much as 10 or even 100.
VLA-FD2EBBF4-RC-094work-as-meaning
Many analysts equated 'measure' with 'business case' rather than resourceful observation to reduce uncertainty.
VLA-FD2EBBF4-RC-344Compute the Expected Cost of Information against its value — uncertainty reduction is itself a measurable business outcome.
VLA-FD2EBBF4-RC-170self-and-identity
Overconfident ranges stem from anchoring — treating each bound as a separate binary question cures the tendency.
VLA-FD2EBBF4-RC-118Illuminates
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