Judgment: How Winning leaders Make Great Calls
The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How to “raise the odds of working successfully and responsibly in the exciting, uncertain, recombiant, market-driven world around us” I read this book…
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Put Your Intuition to Work: How to Supercharge Your Inner Wisdom to Think Fast and Make Great Decisions Lynn A. Robinson Career Press (July 2016) “Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, film making, and business – everything.” David…
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Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter Cass R. Sunstein and Reid Hastie Harvard Business Review Press 2014) How to separate, implement, and optimize the divergent and convergent stages of every problem-solving process As I began to read this…
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The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think Michael E. Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed Portfolio/Penguin Group (2013) The paradox of exceptional organizational performance: Do not be an exception to three rules With rare exception, the best business books are research/evidence-driven and…
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Mark Goulston, M.D., is a prominent psychiatrist, business advisor, and executive coach. He is co-founder of Heartfelt Leadership whose mission is: “Daring to Care.” He is the author of the bestselling Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to…
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Judgment On the Front Line: Why the Smartest Companies Trust their People to Make Real Decisions Chris DeRose and Noel Tichy Portfolio/Penguin Group (2013) How to Build and Then Sustain a Front Line-Focused Organization The implications of the title of…
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The Optimization Edge: Reinventing Decision Making to Maximize All Your Company’s Assets Steve Sashihara McGraw-Hill (2011) How to make complex decisions and recommendations about the best way to deploy assets In a book I very much admire, Judgment: How Winning…
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Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As…
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Harvard Business Review on Making Smart Decisions Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How best practices and expert advice can help you and your associates make smarter decisions In their classic book, Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls,…
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Valuable Lessons to Be Learned from Cass Sunsein and Reid Hastie
In one of Tom Davenport’s recent books, Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right, he and co-author Brooke Manville offer “an antidote for the Great Man theory of decision making and organizational performance”:…
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