First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 31, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

Data is often lacking, low-quality, or conflicting.” 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. Why is this? Let’s turn to the theory. For our purposes here, Chapter 22 is paydirt.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The third category is of the most interest because it concerns factors that the divested business’s (new) management and new owners do control: the quality of the business strategy and operational decisions after divestment, as well as the capital made available for follow-on investments. and the competitive intensity of its industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

But a focus on information processing, reaction, and execution — while it may feel productive — causes the quality of our thoughts to suffer. Thierry Breton, CEO of IT services company Atos, referred to his own experience struggling with emails when he designed and launched a “Zero-email” program in 2011.

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