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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: We cannot remove bias, but we can take measures to reduce its impact.
Chapter 3: When we’re eager to believe a tale, we seek the evidence that supports it.
Chapter 4: We often wrongly credit all of an organization’s success to a single person.
Chapter 5: Strategic choices usually do not benefit from intuition.
Chapter 6: Overconfidence can lead us to make the wrong decisions.
Chapter 7: Thorough analysis of decision-making processes reduces the variability of the outcomes.
Chapter 8: Disagreement and dialogue can lead to more rational strategic decisions.
Description
You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake! (2020) deals with the negative but often predictable effects that cognitive biases have on high-stakes decisions. Far from claiming that biases can be eliminated altogether, it demonstrates how every decision is colored by bias and outlines specific techniques that’ll help you make more rational, fact-based business decisions.
Who Should Listen
- Businesspeople who have to make frequent decisions
- Anyone interested in business strategy and behavioral economics
- Fans of Daniel Kahneman or Malcolm Gladwell