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4 Steps to Make Decisions on the Fly

Lead Change Blog

Daniel Kahneman defined these two ways of thinking in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow. Kahneman describes the fast-thinking experiencing self and a slow-thinking remembered-thinking self, combined in the four-step process below.

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Best Leadership Books of 2011

Leading Blog

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. 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. Take the Lead : Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You by Betsy Myers.

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50 Philosophy Classics: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries 50 Philosophy Classics Albert Einstein Aristotle''s Nicomachean Ethics Cicero Confucius Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman''s Thinking Fast and Slow Jean-Jacque Rousseau Jeremy Bentham John Locke Julian Baggini''s The Ego Trick in 2011 Nassim Nicholas Taleb Niccolò Machiavelli Nicholas Brealey Publishing Plato''s Republic Princeton (..)

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Thinking, Fast and Slow: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011) Why I think this is one of the most important books published during the past decade Given the number and quality of the reviews of this book that have already appeared, there really is not much (if anything) I can contribute…except to explain what [.].

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Mind Wide Open: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson Scribner/Simon & Schuster (2004) How and why the brain sciences can help to “open wide the mind’s caged door” I read this book before Steven Johnson’s later works, The Ghost Map (2006) and Where Good Ideas Come From (2011) and then re-read [.].

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When Human Judgment Works Well, and When it Doesn’t

Harvard Business Review

A number of people noted that Nobel prize-winner Daniel Kahneman’s work, nicely summarized in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow , influenced their thinking a great deal. .” This is true, and what’s amazing is that these are exactly the conditions under which algorithms do better than people. Why is this?

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Can Being Overconfident Make You a Better Leader?

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. companies over the period from 1993 to 2011, asking the following question: Is there systematic evidence that overconfident CEOs are indeed better leaders? Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.