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Quand Yahoo! a proposé de racheter Facebook pour 1 milliard de dollars en juillet 2006, j’ai considéré que nous devions au moins étudier leur offre. Mais Mark Zuckerberg est entré en pleine réunion du conseil d’administration pour annoncer : « Bon, les gars, ce n’est qu’une formalité, cela ne devrait pas prendre plus de dix minutes. Nous ne sommes pas vendeurs, c’est évident. » Mark savait où il était capable de mener son entreprise, et Yahoo! n’en savait rien. Dans un monde où les gens ont une vision aléatoire de l’avenir, une entreprise dotée d’un plan bien défini sera toujours sous-évaluée.
Pareto Principle: Pattern of nature in which ~80% of effects result from ~20% of causes. E.g. 80% of wealth is held by 20% of people, 80% of computer errors result from 20% of bugs, 80% of crimes are committed by 20% of criminals, 80% of box office revenue comes from 20% of films
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Epidemiological estimates of national rates of iatrogenic injury (injuries induced inadvertently by doctors, treatments or diagnostic procedures) in the United States suggest that 44 to 66 serious injuries occur per 10,000 hospital visits. But in a study involving more than 200 American hospitals, only 1 per cent reported their rates of iatrogenic injury as within that range. Half of the hospitals were reporting fewer than 5 cases of injury per 10,000 hospital visits. If the epidemiological estimates were even close to accurate, the majority of hospitals were involved in industrial levels of evasion.
Black Box Thinking
Matthew Syed
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