Think Again
Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happeining to You
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 2009
256 pages
978-1-4221-3337-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Sydney Finkelstein | Jo Whitehead | Andrew Campbell
Think Again
Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happeining to You
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01/2009
Harvard Business Review Press
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Finkelstein, Sydney/ Whitehead, Jo/ Campbell, Andrew
Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: How Your Brain Makes Decisions
- ONE: In the Eye of the Storm
- TWO: Pattern Recognition
- THREE: Emotional Tagging
- FOUR: One Plan at a Time
- PART TWO: Why Decisions Go Wrong
- FIVE: Misleading Experiences
- SIX: Misleading Prejudgments
- SEVEN: Inappropriate Self-Interest
- EIGHT: Inappropriate Attachments
- PART THREE: Red Flags and Safeguards
- NINE: Reducing Risks with Safeguards
- TEN: Selecting Safeguards
- ELEVEN: Leaders Make Good Decisions
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II
- NOTES
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
