Thursday, June 3, 2010

Re: Dan Ariely on executive compensation

Also an NPR interview with Ariely at
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D127352130

Interesting stuff--Peter Gow

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Fred Bartels <fredbartels@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dan Ariely, whose research has been reported on by Dan Pink, recently had
> this interesting post on the TED blog.
>
> http://bit.ly/bd4xN3
>
> I particularly liked the last paragraph.
>
> The bottom line is that much like in other areas of our lives, we are not
> perfect, we are not rational, and there are multiple hidden forces that
> shape our abilities and decisions. We can continue to assume that we are
> perfect, but this will only set ourselves up for more fantastic failures.
> If
> instead we were to realize where we fall short, where we fail, and try to
> do
> something about it, our future could indeed be brighter -=E2=80=93 and no=
t just in
> the domain of banking and salaries.
>
> Fred
>
> --
> Fred Bartels
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