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Think Again Sydney Finkelstein

Think Again By Sydney Finkelstein

Think Again by Sydney Finkelstein


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Summary

We've all watched smart, experienced leaders make flawed - even catastrophic - decisions. How can the risks be reduced? And how can you be sure that you're making the right decisions? This book shows how the usually beneficial processes of the human mind can become traps. It offers a different model to help us make better decisions.

Think Again Summary

Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happeining to You by Sydney Finkelstein

Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision--without the benefit of hindsight? Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell show how the usually beneficial processes of the human mind can become traps when we face big decisions. The authors show how the shortcuts our brains have learned to take over millennia of evolution can derail our decision making. Think Again offers a powerful model for making better decisions, describing the key red flags to watch for and detailing the decision-making safeguards we need. Using examples from business, politics, and history, Think Again deconstructs bad decisions, as they unfolded in real time, to show how you can avoid the same fate.

About Sydney Finkelstein

Jo Whitehead and Andrew Campbell direct the Strategic Management Centre at Ashridge Business School and run the popular Strategic Decisions course. They also consult and lecture to major organisations on strategic decision making. Sydney Finkelstein, the author of Why Smart Executives Fail, is a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and regularly lectures on leadership and why leaders fail.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: How Your Brain Makes Decisions Chapter 1. In the Eye of the Storm Chapter 2. Pattern Recognition Chapter 3. Emotional Tagging Chapter 4. One-Plan-at-a-Time Part Two: Why Decisions Go Wrong Chapter 5. Misleading Experiences Chapter 6. Misleading Pre-Judgments Chapter 7. Inappropriate Self-Interest Chapter 8. Inappropriate Attachments Part Three: Red Flags and Safeguards Chapter 9. Reducing Risks with Safeguards Chapter 10. Selecting Safeguards Chapter 11. Leaders Make Good Decisions

Additional information

GOR003850936
9781422126127
1422126129
Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happeining to You by Sydney Finkelstein
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Harvard Business Review Press
20090106
256
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