Think again : why good leaders make bad decisions and how to keep it from happening to you
by
 
Finkelstein, Sydney.

Title
Think again : why good leaders make bad decisions and how to keep it from happening to you

Author
Finkelstein, Sydney.

ISBN
9781422126127

Personal Author
Finkelstein, Sydney.

Publication Information
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2008.

Physical Description
xiv, 236 p. ; 24 cm.

General Note
Includes index.

Contents
In the eye of the storm -- Pattern recognition -- Emotional tagging -- One-plan-at-a-time -- Misleading experiences -- Misleading pre-judgments -- Inappropriate self-interest -- Inappropriate attachments -- Reducing risks with safeguards -- Selecting safeguards -- Leaders make good decisions.

Abstract
"In this book, Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell - each a distinguished expert on strategy and decision making in corporations - show how the usually beneficial processes of the human mind can become traps: experience and emotion can distort our judgment, even while we're striving for objectivity, and we fail to spot errors in our thinking." "Think Again provides a new model to help us make better decisions. With vivid stories ranging across industries and disciplines, the authors deconstruct bad decisions and identify the forces that have produced them. They go on to show you how to recognize the conditions - red flags - under which good decision making is most likely to falter, and offer a way of selecting safeguards that reduce the risk and ensure better outcomes."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term
Executive ability.
 
Decision making.

Added Author
Whitehead, Jo.
 
Campbell, Andrew, 1950 August 3-


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