Book Club : Thinking Fast and Slow

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Book Club : Thinking Fast and Slow

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Apr 17, 2017

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Limited Partner, John McCarthy, is back for another book club episode. This time we talk about Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow -- and how it applies to private equity. Try listening to this episode with your System 2 thinking.

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Apr 17, 2017

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Hosted by Devin Mathews and Jim Milbery, partners at ParkerGale Capital, a middle-market private equity group. This bi-weekly show is a lively discussion of the uses of technology to improve business operations for companies with less than $100 million in revenue.

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Book Club : Thinking Fast and Slow

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