Daniel Kahneman

The Uses (and Abuses) of Influence: An interview of Robert Cialdini

November 8, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Robert Cialdini by Sarah Cliffe for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR…

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Superforecasting: A book review by Bob Morris

October 25, 2015

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner Crown Publishers (2015) How to blend computer-based forecasting and subjective judgment to gain a better sense of what will likely occur Obviously, computers can process, organize, and access…

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The Silo Effect : A book review by Bob Morris

September 28, 2015

The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers Gillian Tett Simon & Schuster (2015) “Why are so many of us sometimes “blind to our own blindness?” Daniel Kahneman Two of the most valuable books…

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Alex Pentland on Great Teams

August 6, 2015

Alex (“Sandy”) Pentland has much of great value to say about how to organize and then lead great teams, first in an article, “The New Science of Building Great Teams,” published in Harvard Business Review and then in a book,…

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Wiser: A book review by Bob Mofrris

March 10, 2015

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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Valuable Lessons to Be Learned from Cass Sunsein and Reid Hastie

March 5, 2015

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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Embrace Your Ignorance

February 12, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Michael Schrage, featured in the MIT Sloan Management Review. Today’s savviest executives acknowledge that most of the time, they can’t accurately predict what their customers will want, like or need. That’s…

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Marcia Reynolds on discomfort in the workplace: Part 1 of a second interview by Bob Morris

February 9, 2015

Dr. Marcia Reynolds, president of Covisioning LLC, works with clients around the world who seek to develop effective leaders. She understands organizational cultures, what blocks communication and innovation, and what is needed to bring people together for better results. She…

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John Beshears and Francesca Gino on “Identifying the Biases Behind Your Bad Decisions”

November 5, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Beshears and Francesca Gino for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive…

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Huggy Rao and Robert I. Sutton on “Sometimes Slower Is Better”

April 8, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Huggy Rao and Robert I. Sutton for Talent Management magazine. They suggest that mastering the art of scaling a human organization requires learning when and how to shift gears from fast…

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