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Strategic Thinking [PDF]

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Miguel A. Costa-Gomes   +2 more
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The Lake Wobegon Effect

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1990
What is the Lake Wobegon Effect? How can we explain this phenomenon? Is the Lake Wobegon Effect an artifact of the methodology used in the 1987 study?
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Benchmark to escape from Lake Wobegon

Benchmarking: An International Journal, 2011
PurposeThis paper aims to investigate whether an employee reports an accurate view of the relative performance level of the organisation for which they work.Design/methodology/approachUtilizes a survey of 2,517 senior managers, managers and team leaders from 120 different organisations in nine different countries.FindingsThere is significant and ...
Alan Betts, Simon Croom, Dawei Lu
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The Hiring Problem and Lake Wobegon Strategies

SIAM Journal on Computing, 2010
We introduce the hiring problem, in which a growing company continuously interviews and decides whether to hire applicants. This problem is similar in spirit but quite different from the well-studied secretary problem. Like the secretary problem, it captures fundamental aspects of decision making under uncertainty and has many possible applications. We
Andrei Z. Broder   +5 more
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