James Surowiecki Quotes

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Instead…the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

We can't always agree on everything.

Disagreement on issues doesn't mean 'dissension.' All it means is that honest men can differ in their approach. You lay out your positions, and president makes a decision.

You can't expect everyone to agree with you.

Having three kids at home is sometimes like dealing with Democrats and Republicans when you're choosing a restaurant.

Not everyone will always agree with me.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

If you're not arguing, your coalition isn't wide enough.

For me it's much more like a little kid rebelling. The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life. I come from the business side and Mark comes from the creative side, but every time a decision came up about Creep it was two emails, and we agreed. I've not had that ever with someone on the creative or the business side.

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.

I don't toe the party line all the time.

Not everybody's gonna get your vision.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

Everybody in Odd Future is their own artist - they have their own friends and their own ideas for things - so we all spent quite a lot of time separated.

I mean, I didn't feel, as part of Girls Aloud, that my opinion wasn't heard, or they went and did certain things and I had no say, or we had no say.

When you have 435 people who are opinionated... sometimes agreeing on things is difficult.

I have no problem at all if somebody disagrees with me on my politics, or on this, that or whatever. That's fine.

Being surrounded by diverse points of view pushes us beyond our comfort zones. And when people and teams bring multiple perspectives and experiences to the table, the discussions are deeper, the decision-making process is better, and the solutions are stronger.

If I agree with something, then I do, and if I don't, then I don't. It's as simple as that.

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.

The best way to minimize disagreement is to make sure that all the stakeholders are in the room.

Some say no when others say yes. That's the difficulty with handball.