You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake! (eBook)

How Biases Distort Decision-Making and What You Can Do to Fight Them

Olivier Sibony (Autor)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
336 Seiten
Swift Press (Verlag)
978-1-80075-001-2 (ISBN)

Infos

'A masterful introduction to the state of the art in managerial decision-making. Surprisingly, it is also a pleasure to read' - Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow A lively, research-based tour of nine common decision-making traps - and practical tools for avoiding them - from a professor of strategic thinking We make decisions all the time. It's so natural that we hardly stop to think about it. Yet even the smartest and most experienced among us make frequent and predictable errors. So, what makes a good decision? Should we trust our intuitions, and if so, when? How can we avoid being tripped up by cognitive biases when we are not even aware of them? You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake! offers clear and practical advice that distils the latest developments in behavioural economics and cognitive psychology into actionable tools for making clever, effective decisions in business and beyond.

Olivier Sibony is an Affiliate Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris and an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University. Previously, he spent 25 years in the Paris and New York offices of McKinsey & Company, where he was a senior partner. Sibony's research on improving the quality of strategic decision making has been featured in many publications, including Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. He is a graduate of HEC Paris and hold a PhD from Paris Sciences et Lettres University. He is a co-author, with Daniel Kahneman, of the forthcoming Noise.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Bias • Books for Managers • business • Decision • Management • Psychology • unconscious bias
• ISBN-10: 1-80075-001-3 / 1800750013
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80075-001-2 / 9781800750012