Publisher Description
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.
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About the Authors
Sydney Finkelstein, the author of Why Smart Executives Fail and Think Again, is Stephen Roth Professor of Management at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. An expert on leadership and strategy, he regularly gives lectures across the country. He has participated on numerous CEO forums, been interviewed or had his work appear in numerous leading media outlets, and served as consultant and speaker for major companies around the world, including Aetna, American Express, Barclays, Boeing, Chevron, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, GE, Glaxo, JP Morgan Chase, McGraw-Hill, and Morgan Stanley, among others.
Jo Whitehead is a director of Ashridge Strategic Management Centre, which was formed in 1987 to research issues concerned with the management of multi-business companies. He holds an MA from Cambridge University, an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, and a PhD from London Business School. Jo coauthored the book Think Again - Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it From Happening to You, with Andrew Campbell and Sydney Finkelstein.
Walter Dixon is a broadcast media veteran of more than twenty years’ experience with a background in theater and performing arts and voice work for commercials. After a career in public radio, he is now a full-time narrator with more than fifty audiobooks recorded in genres ranging from religion and politics to children’s stories.
About Walter Dixon
Walter Dixon is a broadcast media veteran of more than twenty years’ experience with a background in theater and performing arts and voice work for commercials. After a career in public radio, he is now a full-time narrator with more than fifty audiobooks recorded in genres ranging from religion and politics to children’s stories.