This study from Deloitte suggests that survivor bias and a lack of rigor discredit the "research" in books like "In Search of Excellence" and "Good to Great". Link: http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/us_consulting_persistencerandomsearchfor_April2009.pdf They claim that "success studies tend to rely exclusively on intuition... read more.>
Posted on April 13, 2009 6:25 AM
Just ran into this visualization tool which shows animated statistics for a number of key categories (child mortality, CO2 emissions, fertility rate, economic growth, urban population and a bunch of others) broken down by country over time. Fun to play... read more.>
Posted on January 20, 2007 11:59 AM
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