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10 Books You Should Read This Summer

Leading Blog

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Katy Milkman. . * Wherever there is judgment, there is noise. Noise is a hidden force that clouds our judgment and undermines our decisions.

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

Regardless of the audience, however, they can help HR professionals understand how to manage people and improve organizational effectiveness. For example, Adams demonstrates how to better manage employees in a more digital and disruptive company environment by using examples from her time as the BBC’s HR director.

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

Regardless of the audience, however, they can help HR professionals understand how to manage people and improve organizational effectiveness. For example, Adams demonstrates how to better manage employees in a more digital and disruptive company environment by using examples from her time as the BBC’s HR director.

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Life is Luck — Here’s How to Plan a Career Around It

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman has claimed the following as his favorite equation: Success = talent + luck. Kahneman’s implication is that the difference between moderate and great success is mostly luck, not skill. Chance plays a much greater role in our careers than we might wish or even realize. There are no “starving dentists.”

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How to Make Better Decisions

Leading Blog

A remarkable aspect of your mental life," says Daniel Kahneman, "is that you are rarely stumped." Forty-four percent of lawyers would not recommend a career in law to young people. "Why do we have such a hard time making good choices?" ask Chip and Dan Heath in Decisive. "A We often just go with our gut. . •

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Instinct Can Beat Analytical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. So, how to predict which customers will buy, and which will not?