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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. Gladwell asks, “How is it that, sometimes, for any number of unexpected and random reasons, technology slips away from its intended path?”

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. Daniel Kahneman. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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How to Improve Your Decision-Making Skills

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his work on cognitive biases, points out in an HBR article that a team that has fallen in love with its theories may unconsciously ignore or reject contradictory evidence, place too much weight on one piece of data, or make faulty comparisons to another business case that suits its bias.

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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. For our purposes here, Chapter 22 is paydirt. It’s titled “Expert Intuition: When Can We Trust It?”

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.” Daniel Kahneman. What does the research show us about how we feel our leaders are doing? Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. I recently spoke with him about his work.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

The term “digital firms” refers to those companies that from their inception have focused on digital services enabled by the internet and related technologies, including mobile. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. There are deeper reasons behind the systematic failure of Western digital firms in China.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

But it is a very basic rewrite of how to think about finance, and it has swept all before it in the academic world. It feels like it’s got a little bit of Kahneman and Tversky in it. That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. It goes back to the 1970s. Lars is famous for that.

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