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A smiling bald man is positioned in front of a collage featuring a large clock, a graph, and a timeline spanning from 2004 to 2010. The background is primarily yellow with various black and white elements, reflecting Horowitz hindsight at its finest.
Business
The hard thing about hindsight: Why looking back has its limits
Big Think asks startup legend and VC heavyweight Ben Horowitz to reflect on his bestseller "The Hard Thing About Hard Things."
Mike Hodgkinson
A collage image featuring a side profile of a person, abstract patterns, financial data, a cloudy sky, a person resting, another with head in hands—capturing the essence of freedom from hindsight bias—and a sunset over the ocean.
Business
How to free yourself from “hindsight bias”
Josh Kaufman — best-selling author of entrepreneurial classic "The Personal MBA" — explores an essential truth about all decision-making.
Josh Kaufman
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Business
Trick of the brain on hindsight: Founders who think they’re heroes
Why the best entrepreneurs should be more Obi-Wan Kenobi than Luke Skywalker.
Mike Maples
A man's portrait, segmented with rectangular sections of a vintage yellow world map overlaid on the image, embodies a sense of leadership. He is wearing glasses and a tie, exuding an air of wisdom and hindsight.
Business
Insight from hindsight: Become a “historian of your own life”
David Novak — the cofounder, and former CEO and chairman, of Yum! Brands — celebrates the benefits of active, lifelong learning.
David Novak
A black and white portrait of a man with a large mustache is overlaid on a green collage containing a baseball and a baseball field, subtly evoking the philosophy of hindsight.
Business
What baseball and Nietzsche tell us about the perils of hindsight
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
Mark Freeman
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Business
How hindsight can take us to a new level of “wisdom management”
Chip Conley — founder and CEO of JDV Hospitality and Airbnb’s former Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy — maps out an inclusive path from hindsight to wisdom.
Chip Conley
Two elderly men in glasses smiling. One man wears a white shirt and the other a suit and tie. The background features a blue book cover titled "Business Adventures," symbolizing their connection through timeless business wisdom.
Business
Golden in hindsight: The timeless business book still dog-eared by great leaders
"Business Adventures" by John Brooks was first published in 1969 and remains a must-read for all CEOs.
Tim Cooper
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