Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
- Unknown (Seen it attributed to Barry LePatner, Jim Horning, Will Rogers, Chuck Thomas, Mark Twain ... so take your pick of author.)
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has an interesting article on the subject, What Do You Think? Does Judgment Trump Experience? Click here for the article in a pdf format.
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I have seen credible references attributing "Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment" to Mulla Nasrudin, the great 13th Century Sufi sage/fool. So it's not original with any of us moderns.
Jim Horning
Posted by: Jim Horning | February 18, 2009 at 03:02 PM