Business Blog: Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

Evoking a post from a couple of weeks ago, here’s a recipe for some thought-provoking online goodness . . .

First, take Netscape, Opsware, and Ning founder Marc Andreessen:

Second, have him comment in detail on the classic “Psychology of Human Misjudgment” lecture of Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charlie Munger:

Third, ponder what all of this means for your own career and company.

Fourth, take action as a wiser businessperson.

I’ll have more to say on this later — it’s right in my business-analysis wheelhouse — but for now I’ll just point you to Andreessen’s first post on this subject and encourage you to go grapple with it.

Those who can free themselves from the unfruitful habits that neurology tends to force upon us will achieve true differentiation in the business world.

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Previously in this vein:

• Irrationality in investment decisions.
• Confirmation bias: fight the Procrustean instinct.

(Andreessen photo from NNDB; Munger photo via Forbes.)