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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. Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success by Ron Friedman. By reverse engineering what has worked for others, we can unlock patterns that will work in our own lives. Wherever there is judgment, there is noise.

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In April, we begin our 15th year of the First Friday Book Synopsis – with Gary Hamel, What Matters Now & Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every [.]. On April 3, 1998, Karl Krayer and I presented our first two books at the first ever First Friday Book Synopsis. Here were our first two book choices: • The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997) – synopsis presented by Randy Mayeux. •

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Do you fit the management stereotype?

Chartered Management Institute

Probably the best known experiment into representativeness heuristics was conducted by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the 70's. engineering. As it's Friday, and I'm a fun kinda guy, why don't you play along? They asked people to judge the likelihood that a random student, called Tom W, studied a particular subject at university.

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The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Harvard Business Review

By applying tougher criteria we can tap into our brain's sophisticated search engine. One particularly interesting study was conducted by Kahneman, Knetsch and Thaler (published here ) where consumption objects (e.g. then we will be able to eliminate the clutter and have space for something better.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

This study uses two rounds of interviewing to identify what the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes as the “inside view” and the “outside view” of the phenomenon. Uber’s founder and CEO at the time, Travis Kalanick, took a hands-on role and spent over 20% of his time in China.

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An Exercise to Get Your Team Thinking Differently About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow , observed that decision makers get stuck in a memory loop and can only predict the future as a reflection of the past. Crowd sourcing will become a fundamental R&D engine.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

It feels like it’s got a little bit of Kahneman and Tversky in it. He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control. Suppose you’re an engineer and you’re building a bridge. So what you might do as an engineer is try to build your bridge to be safe in a worst case.

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