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Skin in the game

Also: Skin-in-the-game

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Read about Skin in the game in Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — the primary source in the Read Stacks library.

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Taleb's central claim is that asymmetry between decision-making and consequence-bearing is the root cause of much of the dysfunction in modern institutions.

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