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Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happeining to You Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead and Andrew Campbell Format: Hardcover, 256pp. ISBN: 9781422126127 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: February 3, 2009 Average Customer Review: For Bulk Orders Call: 626-441-2024 Description and Reviews From The Publisher: 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. Reader's Index Send us your favorite quotes or passages from this book. • "A bad decision starts with at least one influential person making an error of judgment. But normally, the decision process will save the day: facts will be brought to the table that challenge the flawed thinking, or other people with different views will influence the outcome. So the second factor that contributes to a bad decision is the way the decision is managed: for whatever reason, as the decision is being discussed, the erroneous views are not exposed and corrected." Pg. xii Description and Reviews From The Publisher: About the Authors Jo Whitehead and Andrew Campbell direct the Strategic Management Centre at Ashridge Business School. 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
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