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Best Leadership Books of 2011

Leading Blog

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2010. Good Strategy Bad Strategy : The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt. Willful Blindness : Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril by Margaret Heffernan. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Decision Points by George W.

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The Planning Fallacy and the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

The basic concept , first presented by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman and his partner Amos Tversky in an influential 1979 paper, is that human beings are astonishingly bad at estimating how long it will take to complete tasks. But the basic pattern continues.

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After a Blizzard, What's a Fair Price for a Shovel?

Harvard Business Review

On the surface, these results don't appear to synch with those reported by Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. In a Canadian telephone survey, Kahneman et al. In a Canadian telephone survey, Kahneman et al. Knetsch, and Richard H. 82% of respondents judged this action to be "unfair.". 82% of respondents judged this action to be "unfair.".

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Income Inequality Makes Whole Countries Less Happy

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 paper by psychologist Daniel Kahneman and economist Angus Deaton, both Nobel laureates, calculated that day-to-day happiness peaks at an income of $75,000 a year, after which it plateaus. (At This research builds on some earlier, seminal research on how much money we need to make us happy.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. And while luck plays a much bigger role in explaining business success than managers like to believe, as Daniel Kahneman points out, the examples here clearly demonstrate that you can always give luck a helping hand.

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WOMEN: Moments in Your Day

Women in the LEAD

As a leader, co-worker, friend, mom, sister, wife or partner, it also reminds us how important our words and actions can be in influencing someone else's moments and experience: " According to Nobel Prize-winning scientist Daniel Kahneman, we experience approximately 20,000 individual moments in a waking day.

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Ethical Consumerism Isn’t Dead, It Just Needs Better Marketing

Harvard Business Review

An often-quoted 2010 Wall Street Journal article, “ The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility ,” laid out the argument clearly: “the fact is that while companies sometimes can do well by doing good, more often they can’t.

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