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In the Eye of the Storm: What's Going on Inside the Brain When Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions
Finkelstein, Sydney; Whitehead, Jo; Campbell, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-3583BC-EHurricane Katrina caused catastrophic damage to the Gulf Coast in August of 2005. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes--many permanently. At least 1,800 people died, and the total cost of the damage was estimated at $86 billion. And yet, many hours were lost as Matthew Broderick, Director of the Homeland Security Operations Center in Washington, D.C., gathered information and then made the wrong decision, failing to leap into action i...Starting at €8.20
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Pattern Recognition: How Our Mental Processes Increase the Likelihood of Making Flawed Decisions
Finkelstein, Sydney; Whitehead, Jo; Campbell, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-3606BC-EPattern recognition is a great friend to decision makers. It allows us to make (mostly) good judgments, filling in gaps in information based on our past experience. This process is not foolproof, however, and can cause failures in judgment if we're not careful, especially when we think we have sufficient relevant experience in situations when we do not. As the authors explain in this chapter, we need to identify when erroneous pattern recognition...Starting at €8.20
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Misleading Prejudgments: How to Spot This Common Cause of Flawed Decisions
Finkelstein, Sydney; Whitehead, Jo; Campbell, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-3610BC-EPrejudgments influence decisions because of the way we tag our thoughts with emotions. In decision making, it is the emotional tags that help us sort through the many possible interpretations we could make of a given situation and the many possible courses of action we could take. If the new situation is different from previous situations, prejudgments can inappropriately anchor our thinking, disrupt our objectivity, and make it hard for us to th...Starting at €8.20
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Inappropriate Self-Interest: A Beguiling and Unconscious Influence on Decision Making
Finkelstein, Sydney; Whitehead, Jo; Campbell, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-3611BC-EThe demise of Enron stands out as an iconic story of self-interest and its corrosive effect on decision making. This story of corruption, however, is extreme, and we might be tempted to think that self-interest is a rare influence on decision making, limited to a few dishonest or misguided people. Not true. In fact, the impact of self-interest is much more pervasive. It can affect the decisions of the most thoughtful and upstanding leaders. It ca...Starting at €8.20
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Reducing Risks with Safeguards: Techniques for Guarding Against the Mental Distortions that Lead to Bad Decisions
Finkelstein, Sydney; Whitehead, Jo; Campbell, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-3613BC-EThe Bay of Pigs was a military and political fiasco, but President Kennedy learned from his mistake and created a process that reduced the risk of a flawed decision when faced with the Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. He recognized the potential to prejudge the situation, draw on misleading experiences, and be over-influenced by self-interest, so safeguards were put in place to guide his decision making. Safeguards can involve a wide rang...Starting at €8.20
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Emotional Tagging: How Our Mental Processes Increase the Likelihood of Making Flawed Decisions
Finkelstein, Sydney; Whitehead, Jo; Campbell, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-3607BC-EWhen someone makes a bad decision, it is often said that that person let his emotions get in the way of clear judgment. According to the authors, it is true that the brain's decision making processes rely heavily on emotions. When the brain stores a memory of an event or action, it also stores an associated emotion with it. This is called "emotional tagging," an unconscious process that helps us assess a situation and identify a suitable action p...Starting at €8.20
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Success Gets into Your Head--and Changes It
Berinato, ScottArticle HBS-F1001D-ELeadership and People ManagementA neuroscience research team at MIT has discovered that success can rewire your brain-and that failure has no impact at all.Starting at €8.20
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Life's Work: Oliver Sacks
Sacks, Oliver; Burrell, LisaArticle HBS-R1011P-ELeadership and People ManagementThe neurologist and best-selling author talks about career crossroads and gaining people's trust through empathy.Starting at €8.20
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Adult Development and Organizational Leadership
Kegan, Robert; Lahey, LisaBook Chapter HBS-6170BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhat will distinguish your leadership from others' in the years ahead? The authors of this chapter believe it will be your ability to develop yourself, your people, and your teams. They apply adult development theories-debunking the belief that the human brain slows in its ability to adapt and learn by the age of thirty-to the concept of leadership development. They argue that the field has overemphasized "leadership" and underemphasized "develop...Starting at €8.20
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When Emotional Reasoning Trumps IQ
Gilkey, Roderick; Caceda, Ricardo; Kilts, ClintonArticle HBS-F1009D-EStrategyResearch using fMRI brain scans by a team of neurologists shows an intriguing connection between high-level strategic and tactical thinking.Starting at €8.20