Harvard Business Review on Making Smart Decisions (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

By Harvard Business School Press and Various

Book Overview

Why do bad decisions happen to good managers? If you need the best practices and ideas for smart decision making--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: - Make bold decisions that challenge the status quo - Support your decisions with diverse data - Avoid choices that justify past bad decisions - Evaluate risks and benefits with equal rigor - Check for faulty cause-and-effect reasoning - Test your decisions with experiments - Foster and address constructive criticism - Defeat indecisiveness with clear accountability - Root out unconscious prejudices

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1422172392
• ISBN13: 9781422172391
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Good set of article

Like any HBR review book, this just provides articles on decision making, some are thought provoking and very useful, the one I did not like was the article "Competing on Analytics" but the other 7 articles were good, with 5 of them being great. Each article provides a great read for a 1 hour plan flight. It is funny how poorly companies execute decision making, this book should help you rethink how you make decision making in your own company. Dr. Brian Glassman Ph.D in Innovation Management from Purdue University (2009)