Francesca Gino
4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book That Could Be Made Better, April 7, 2013
I received this book as a gift and was glad to get it. As a professional intelligence officer I have been fascinated for decades by the mystery of why smart people make stupid decisions — completely apart from outight corruption. This book is most helpful in addressing nine specific contexts within which good decisions gets sidetracked into bad decisions, and I certainly recommend it as a gift for any thinking person, perhaps for a long airplane ride. It does not address my larger focus on “information pathologies”
The book is structured to address three forces impacting on the how of our decisions:
01 Forces from within
02 Forces from our relationships
03 Forces from the outside
The author concludes with a summary of the “nine step program” for not getting sidetracked:
