Harvard Business Review on Making Smart Decisions
by Harvard Business Review
If you need the best practices and ideas for smart decision making-but don't have time to find them-this Book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.
This collection of HBR articles will help you :
- Make bold decisions that challenge the status quo
- Support your decisions with diverse data
- Avoid choices that justify past bad decisions
- 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
- Root out unconscious prejudices
1. The Hidden Traps in Decision Making/John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa
2. Delusions of Success : How Optimism Undermines Executives' Decisions/Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman
3. Conquering a Culture of Indecision/Ram Charan
4. Evidence-Based Management/Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
5. What You Don't Know About Making Decisions/David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberta
6. Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance/Paul Rogers and Marcia Blenko
7. How (Un)ethical Are You?/Mahzarin R. Banaji, Max H. Bazerman, and Dolly Chugh
8. Make Better Decisions/Thomas H. Davenport
9. Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions/Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead, and Sydney Finkelstein
10. Stop Making Plans; Start Making Decisions/Michael C. Mankins and Richard Steel