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123 - Active Information Avoidance (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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The Importance of Information Avoidance

There are so many stories in which executives ignore or downplay the emerging bad information and just go forward with mergers or acquisitions that are often disastrous for the company. Another negative impact would be when heads of state or people in positions of power avoid information to protect their prior decisions. A manager or a CEO may actively want to avoid information and not find out what's really going on. Despite the potential for causing harm, this psychological phenomenon of active information avoidance often has very positive outcomes for the person.

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