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And brazilian german serial entrepreneur ike about tista everything he touched seemed to turn to gold with a personal wealth of thirty billion dollars he was named seventh richest man in the world in two thousand and twelve he made his fortune and oil and iron mining and then in twenty seventeen he was sentenced to thirty years in jail for bribery. the twilight of the demi gods of the business world but they fall they fall far and even if they manage to escape prison they almost never make it ba...

A token number of lifeboats some fifteen hundred lives were lost. whether its the hubris of the rich and powerful or blind overconfidence arrogance often leads to failure and that sense pride does come before a fall. the antidote to overconfidence is simple its humility. it forces rulers managers and it gets back to reality. in the long term thats a better outcome for everyone. and what better person to talk about that than an executive who was living the life throwing lavish parties surrounded ...

Failure in that sense pride does come before a fall. the antidote to overconfidence is simple its humility. it forces rulers managers and egotists back to reality. in the long term thats a better outcome for everyone. and what better person to talk about that than an executive who was living the life lavish parties surrounded by the international jets only to end up thrown out communicated locked up. for. a manager who was jailed but still insists he didnt. come to a prison in frankfurt that for...

Thousands of workers were involved in its construction not just slaves but also many farmers the harvest suffered and famine swept across the land economic life came to a near standstill contributing to the empires collapse. hubris can also take the form of seventy thousand tons of steel in one thousand twelve the titanic was the largest ship in service at the time its builders and operators were convinced the ocean liner was unsinkable by any force of nature but on its maiden voyage the titanic...

World in two thousand and twelve he made his fortune in oil and iron mining then in twenty seventeen he was sentenced to thirty years in jail for bribery. the twilight of the demi gods of the business world but they fall they fall far and even if they manage to escape prison they almost never make it back to the top. when powerful highly paid executives hit the wall we get to watch practically in real time in the digital era but overconfidence is nothing new throughout the ages self-important fi...

Warning. he says facebook is not just bad for our brains and kids brains, he says its a danger for our democracy. roger mcnamee was part of facebooks most crucial decisions including encouraging zuckerberg not to sell the company in 2007 and encouraging sheryl sandberg to join the company. he no longer advises facebook but still owns shares. mcnamee says facebooks rapid success led to overconfidence and unwillingness to face up to the risks the company presents. so he says its time to break up t...

>> there is we were talking just recently about that. the majority of democrats identify themselves as liberals. all of these potential candidates are all packing left. youre not thinking what it means for the general election. i believe there is this overconfidence among democrats that president trump is unpopular to such a degree that basically any democrat will be able to beat him in 2020. i dont think that is the case. when i see this field emerge, so far it lackluster. theyre not very accom...

It was very poorly designed in terms of the decision-making. >> when they were actually deciding on the bin laden raid, they had a number of different kind of past decisions that had gone awry. there was the iran hostage situation. there was the weapons of mass destruction during the iraq war. all the way back to bay of pigs. and they looked at the kinds of processes that went wrong in those situations, the confirmation bias and overconfidence, and they really tried to challenge their assumption...

The iran hostage rescue which went badly. it was poorly designed in terms of the decision making? >> you know when they were actually deciding on the bin laden raid they had a number of past decisions that had gone awry. there was the iran hostage decision. there was the weapons of mass destruction during the iraq war all the way back to bay of pigs. and they looked at the kinds of processes you know that went wrong in those situations, the confirmation bias, and overconfidence. and they really ...

So that might have given him an incentive or at least he felt somewhat protected in doing so, right? >> i think youre saying that when he gave those answers to congress, did he believe he was insulated because if it ever came back to haunt him, that he would be pardoned? >> right. >> i think you may be onto something. ive looked at the language of the statements that he made. there was almost some irrational overconfidence in the words he used. instead of we ultimately decided not to travel the ...