HBRs 10 Must Reads on Making Smart D..., Ram Charan
HBRs 10 Must Reads on Making Smart D..., Ram Charan
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions

Author: Ram Charan, Daniel Kahneman, Harvard Business Review

Narrator: James Edward Thomas

Unabridged: 6 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/22/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers—and how to make better ones.

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on decision making, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organization make better choices and avoid common traps.

Leading experts such as Ram Charan, Michael Mankins, and Thomas Davenport provide the insights and advice you need to: make bold decisions that challenge the status quo; support your decisions with diverse data; evaluate risks and benefits with equal rigor; check for faulty cause-and-effect reasoning; test your decisions with experiments; foster and address constructive criticism; and defeat indecisiveness with clear accountability.

About Ram Charan

Ram Charan is an award-winning educator and consultant to senior business leaders and boards around the globe. He is one of the world's bestselling business book authors with over 2 million copies sold. His book with Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy, Execution, spent 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex on March 11, 2016

A lot of on cognitive biases. A lot on how to improve organizational structure for making better decision. But almost nothing on how to do better decisions as a person.......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on March 17, 2017

I have listened to Audiobook and I have forgotten almost all information in a couple of days, but one thought was memorable enough. Re-evaluate departmental goals yourself. Everyone tries to be on a safe side and because of that, the costs can get over the roof. Another lesson, is that we are not al......more

Goodreads review by Nishant on May 19, 2014

The first two chapters are a good summary of biases and cautions you need to take to make better decisions. The other chapters are more focused towards organizational decision making and might be helpful only for entrepreneurs/CEOs, but quite valuable! Gave some good pointers to the problems I have......more

Goodreads review by Fadl on August 15, 2018

A very enlightening read about decision making with a plethora of examples and accurate pinpoints to the hidden traps and biases in decision making. Yet, many of the examples refer to multinational large companies which makes some sections seems irrelevant to small companies.......more

Goodreads review by Carlos on February 12, 2017

Some interesting and insightful articles on decisions......more