Business Pundit

Some links you may find interesting….

Most people are unskilled and unaware that they are unskilled, which is why they consistently rate themselves higher than they should on lots of things. This also explains why so many business decisions are poor.

Customers are most easily influenced in the early stages of shopping.

Skip looks at the downside of collaboration.

Business 2.0 extols the virtues of Digg, which I still think sucks compared to Slashdot because that latter (in general) has much more intelligent comments on most posts. The article also acts like Digg is revolutionary, even though Kuro5hin started the democratic editorial control model several years ago. Note to VCs, when you back something with millions of dollars that a college kid already did years ago as a side project, you better hope you can sell it on hype, because the substance isn't there.

And finally, the ESPN National Bracket for the NCAA tournament… 0 for 4 on the Final Four… the wisdom of crowds in action…of course, to be fair, none of the experts picked it this year either.