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Think twice : harnessing the power of counterintuition / Michael J. Mauboussin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 190 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781422155547
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD30 .T456 2009
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The outside view : why Big Brown was a bad bet -- Open to options : how your telephone number can influence your decisions -- The expert squeeze : why Netflix knows more than clerks do about your favorite films -- Situational awareness : how accordion music boosts sales of burgundy -- More is different : how bees find the best hives without a real estate agent -- Evidence of circumstance : how outsourcing the Dreamliner became Boeing's nightmare -- Grand ah-whooms : how ten Brits made the Millennium Bridge wobble -- Sorting luck from skill : why investors excel at buying high and selling low -- Time to think twice : how you can change your decision making immediately.
Summary: Leaders in business, medicine, law and government make crucial decisions every day. The harsh truth is that they mismanage many of those choices, even though they have the right intentions. Why is it so hard to make sound decisions? Mauboussin offers powerful rules for avoiding error.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Smart is as smart does -- The outside view : why Big Brown was a bad bet -- Open to options : how your telephone number can influence your decisions -- The expert squeeze : why Netflix knows more than clerks do about your favorite films -- Situational awareness : how accordion music boosts sales of burgundy -- More is different : how bees find the best hives without a real estate agent -- Evidence of circumstance : how outsourcing the Dreamliner became Boeing's nightmare -- Grand ah-whooms : how ten Brits made the Millennium Bridge wobble -- Sorting luck from skill : why investors excel at buying high and selling low -- Time to think twice : how you can change your decision making immediately.

Leaders in business, medicine, law and government make crucial decisions every day. The harsh truth is that they mismanage many of those choices, even though they have the right intentions. Why is it so hard to make sound decisions? Mauboussin offers powerful rules for avoiding error.

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