Book description
Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers—and how to make better ones.
If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organization make better choices and avoid common traps.
Leading experts such as Ram Charan, Michael Mankins, and Thomas Davenport provide the insights and advice you need to:
- Make bold decisions that challenge the status quo
- Support your decisions with diverse data
- Evaluate risks and benefits with equal rigor
- Check for faulty cause-and-effect reasoning
- Test your decisions with experiments
- Foster and address constructive criticism
- Defeat indecisiveness with clear accountability
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Hidden Traps in Decision Making
- Before You Make That Big Decision
- How to Avoid Catastrophe
- Conquering a Culture of Indecision
- What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
- Who Has the D?
- How (Un)ethical Are You?
- Make Better Decisions
- Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions
- Stop Making Plans; Start Making Decisions
- About the Contributors
- Index
Product information
- Title: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions (with featured article "Before You Make That Big Decision..." by Daniel Kahneman, Dan Lovallo, and Olivier Sibony)
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2013
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781422191439
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