Munger: Organizations must isolate decision-making from people with say-something syndrome
Charlie Munger · Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers] · Nov 18, 2025 · at 1:04:56
Investor Charlie Munger discusses 'Twaddle Tendency' and 'say-something syndrome', where people feel compelled to articulate confident nonsense even when they lack relevant knowledge.
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“And it's a very important part of human organization to set things up so the noise and the reciprocation and so forth, of all these people who have what I call say-something syndrome, don't really affect the decisions.”
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