Fat Tails

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Strategy

Foundational Lexiconextreme events
Executive Parlancenon-normal distribution
Scholarly Discoursekurtosis excess
Babel ZenithFat Tails
Origin: Statistics

Etymology & Meaning

Distributions with more extreme events than normal.

In the Boardroom

Building systems that survive extreme market moves.

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