The book Fooled by Randomness is not new. But, since Denise and I discussed randomness, I thought it would be nice to give a quick recap of the book, in order to the discussion up to speed. The key message in the book comes down to this. ‘Randomness plays a bigger part in our lives then we would like to acknowledge‘. If you read the book you’ll often smile (or not…, if your on the receiving end of his fury). Taleb constantly pounds on self deceit, half truths, sloppy reasoning, prejudice and limited knowledge on the part of humans. What often looks like skill is often plain old luck.
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We now have course material from the post graduate course on evidence-based management available for you to use in your own classrooms or at work. The course has been designed by Eric Barends from the Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam. To download the course material, please [...] For all practitioners who can’t wait to read the new handbook on Evidence-based Management, there is good news. The draft chapters (which are currently available), can be downloaded for review on this site. We welcome suggestions and comments, which you can leave in the mail form at the bottom of the page. The draft versions of [...] Yesterday the first PDW (Professional Development Workshop) on Evidence-Based Management as a new way to teaching the practice of management was held at the annual Academy of Management. Judging from the amount of people who showed up (almost 50) and the novelty of the topic, we think it was a huge success. In the audience we [...] Last week most of the authors from the upcoming Handbook of Evidence-Based Management: Companies, Classrooms and Research gathered at Carnegie Mellon University. The handbook will be published by Oxford University Press next year. Most of the authors already knew each other and some new people joined in as well. It was a very intense meeting presided [...]
After all, employee engagement, stress reduction and the power of teamwork seem such good sense that few people stop to think further. There is only one problem. There is little or no evidence to back up any of these ideas. Continue reading Show me the evidence….
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The never ending debate on “real science” and “pseudo science”. In this short clip, Richard Feynman points out the ‘fallacies’ of social science research. From the point of view of the “exact” sciences like chemistry, physics or mathematics, the reasoning looks sound. However, from a science philosophy point of view, one could argue that even the great Richard Feynman is comparing apples and oranges. Social science and exact science have different merits. The nature of science is that it works of the principle of falsifiability (a term posed by Karl Popper). And in social sciences, there are no real ‘laws’ which can compare to exact sciences. However, and interesting clip to watch, since this topic seems to recure. 
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