Why Decisions Fail
Avoiding the Blunders and Traps That Lead to Debacles
1st Edition
Published on 10. July 2002
353 pages
978-1-60509-149-5 (ISBN)
Description
Nutt critiques 15 infamously bad decisions that became public debacles and offers business lessons based on decades of real-world research.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- The Decision Debacles
- Chapter 1: Blunders that Launch a Decision Debacle
- Chapter 2: Traps that Catch Decision Makers
- Chapter 3: Decision-Making Processes Prone to Success and Failure
- Chapter 4: Traps in Failing to Lead the Effort with Agreed-Upon Claims
- Chapter 5: The Traps in Unmanaged Social and Political Forces
- Chapter 6: Traps in Misleading Directions
- Chapter 7: Traps in Limited Search and No Innovation
- Chapter 8: The Traps in Misusing Evaluation
- Chapter 9: Ethical Traps
- Chapter 10: Learning Traps
- Chapter 11: The Lessons: Avoiding the Blunders and Traps
- Appendix 1: The Decision-Making Research Project
- Appendix 2: Estimating Risk
- Appendix 3: Citations for the Debacles
- References and Selected Readings
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Z
- About the Author
