In any institution with many frontline employees, roughly half will be below average, so designing the institution around the top 10% is irrational; routinizing decisions and removing some discretion is therefore likely to improve outcomes.

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Ian Ayres

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routinize standard this is just... taking away some of their discretion is likely to pay off

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Ian Ayres on Super Crunchers and the Power of Data 10/22/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:42 AM

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