Why Decisions Fail (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

Why Decisions Fail (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
Author: Paul C. Nutt
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2003
Genre: Decision making
ISBN: 1442966017

[This book] analyzes ... the chains of blunders and bad judgments that led to fifteen legendary debacles, including the Firestone tire recall, EuroDisney, and Quaker's failed acquisition of Snapple. In each case, [the author] pinpoints exactly how and where the decision-making process went wrong and shows what managers in any organization can learn from these monumental fiascoes. Based on his analysis of 400 strategic decisions made by top managers in areas such as products and services, pricing and markets, personnel policy, technology acquisition, and strategic reorganization, [the author] estimates that two-thirds of all decisions are based on failure-prone or questionable tactics. He uses the fifteen monumental decision-making disasters to illustrate the potential consequences of these common tactical errors and traps ... He then details successful alternative approaches to decision-making.-Back cover.

Why Decisions Fail

Why Decisions Fail
Author: Nutt
Publisher: Tata McGraw-Hill Education
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9780070584822

Why Decisions Fail analyzes---in many cases for the first time anywhere---the chains of blunders and bad judgments that led to fifteen legendary debacles, including the Firestone tire recall, EuroDisney, and Quaker s failed acquisition of Snapple. In each case, author Paul Nutt pinpoints exactly how and where the decision-making process went wrong and shows what managers in any organization can learn from these monumental fiascoes. Based on his analysis of 400 strategic decisions made by top managers in areas such as products and services, pricing and markets, personnel policy, technology acquisition, and strategic reorganization. Nutt estimates that two-thirds of all decisions are based on failure-prone or questionable tactics. He uses the fifteen monumental decision-making disasters to illustrate the potential consequences of these common tactical errors and traps. Most importantly, he then details successful alternative approaches to decision-making.

Why Decisions Fail

Why Decisions Fail
Author: Paul Nutt
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2002-07-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1605091499

Based on the his analysis of 400 strategic decisions made by top managers in areas such as products and services, pricing and markets, personnel policy, technology acquisition, and strategic reorganization, Nutt estimates that two-thirds of all decisions are based on failure-prone or questionable tactics. He uses the fifteen monumental decision-making disasters to illustrate the potential consequences of these common tactical errors and traps and then details successful alternative decision-making approaches. Why Decisions Fail translates decades of award-winning research into practical terms that managers can use to improve their own decision-making practices.

Why Decisions Fail

Why Decisions Fail
Author: Paul C. Nutt
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2009-03
Genre:
ISBN: 1442966025

People fear a decision that can turn into a debacle - a decision riddled with poor practices producing big losses that become public. This book reveals how a decision can turn into a fiasco and how to prevent this from happening....

Why Plans Fail

Why Plans Fail
Author: James Benson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989081221

Business runs on decisions. Business relies on estimates, plans, and projections - and we all know how accurate they tend to be. Careers are made, careers are broken based on perceived accuracy in estimation and planning. But what if the successes and failures of these projects were not based on the prowess of those making the plans? What if successes and failures were instead the result of a more complex set of events? What if our own cognitive biases - our own brains - were creating our inaccuracies, our poor assumptions, and our unreasonable expectations? Why Plans Fail directly addresses our ability to plan, to forecast, and to make decisions. Written by Jim Benson, author of the Shingo Research Award-winning Personal Kanban, urban planner, software developer, and business owner who has planned and built everything from small software projects, to houses, to urban freeway systems, Why Plans Fail is told by someone with much skin in the estimation and planning game. This short work is the first in the Modus Cooperandi MemeMachine series - which looks specifically at underlying issues that directly impact the success of teams, companies, and individuals. The Mememachine series is meant to start conversations and advance discussion.

Learn from Failure

Learn from Failure
Author: Robert V Sicina
Publisher: Goldtouch Press, LLC
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2022-01-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781956803778

We are, after all, the sum of the decisions we make. This book is built around that axiom. So decision making is what it's all about, yet how good are we at it, and how much would our lives could improve if we got better at it? If you find the answers to those questions intriguing, this book was written for you. Whether you are a businessperson looking to improve your bottom-line or career, or just an ordinary person looking to make fewer mistakes, this book will help achieve those goals. As Napoleon Bonaparte once said, "Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1429969350

*Major New York Times Bestseller *More than 2.6 million copies sold *One of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of the year *Selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of the year *Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient *Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, Thinking, Fast and Slow is a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers.