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Myopia, incompetence and disregard

Poor decision making comes in many guises, but there are three widespread causes that are often implicated

Koen Smets
6 min readApr 15, 2022

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When did you last make a poor decision? I don’t mean unfortunate situations where you were simply unlucky (the kind of thing Alanis Morissette somewhat erroneously calls “ironic” in her eponymous hit). Even the best decisions…

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Koen Smets

Accidental behavioural economist in search of wisdom. Uses insights from (behavioural) economics in organization development. On Twitter as @koenfucius