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

Title
Think again : why good leaders make bad decisions and how to keep it from happening to you / Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell.
Author
Finkelstein, Sydney.
Publication
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Whitehead, Jo.
  • Campbell, Andrew, 1950 August 3-
Description
xiv, 236 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"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
  • Decision making
  • Leadership
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-230) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. How Your Brain Makes Decisions -- 1. In the Eye of the Storm -- 2. Pattern Recognition -- 3. Emotional Tagging -- 4. One Plan at a Time -- Pt. 2. Why Decisions Go Wrong -- 5. Misleading Experiences -- 6. Misleading Prejudgments -- 7. Inappropriate Self-Interest -- 8. Inappropriate Attachments -- Pt. 3. Red Flags and Safeguards -- 9. Reducing Risks with Safeguards -- 10. Selecting Safeguards -- 11. Leaders Make Good Decisions -- App. I. Database of Cases -- App. II. Database of Safeguards.
ISBN
  • 9781422126127 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1422126129 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2008043317
  • 40016411814
OCLC
  • ocn213312399
  • 213312399
  • SCSB-9038226
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries