Why So Many Clever Pilot Programs Flunk Out at Scale “Small experiments for solving social problems may seem to work, but at least half of them fall apart when they’re expanded to a larger constituency. Costs are the main explanation, although not the only...
BigThink.com: Three cognitive biases that allow bad ideas to scale “It took a series of ingenious experiments in the 20th century to uncover some of our biggest cognitive biases. In The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale,...
‘The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great andGreat Ideas Scale’, by John List “If something is worth doing, it is worth doing big. That is the mantra of behavioural economist and author of The Voltage Effect, John List. The innovations that change the...
Scaling Programs Effectively: Two New Books on Potential Pitfalls and the Tools to Avoid Them By David Evans “Interventions that are effective at scale are the golden nuggets of public policy: valuable, rare, and even apparent winners are often revealed to be...
Why Olympic Bronze Medalists Are Happier Than Silver Medalists By John List “With the Beijing Winter Olympics upon us, Team USA has made clear that it is approaching this year’s Games with a special emphasis on the mental health of its athletes. This perhaps...
