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Decision Maker's Playbook, The: 12 Tactics For Thinking Clearly, Navigating Uncertainty And Making Smarter Choices(Financial Times Series)

Decision Maker's Playbook, The: 12 Tactics For Thinking Clearly, Navigating Uncertainty And Making Smarter Choices(Financial Times Series)


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The Decision Maker's Playbook is an easy-to-use, “how-to” toolkit to improve managers' decision making, using visualisations, relevant examples and actionable checklists that cater to its main target group: analytically interested, busy managers and entrepreneurs. The Decision Maker's Playbook will help readers navigate a complex world. Along the four chapters of the books, it will help you in: 1. Collective Evidence 2. Connecting the Dots 3. Crafting the Approach 4. Complete the Mission The Decision Maker's Playbook is your personal toolbox to help you make better decisions. It offers practical advice to help you understand, analyse and shape your world. As simplified representations of reality, the models portrayed in this book allow us to see patterns, identify relationships, and view the world from different vantage points. They help us understand and break up complex phenomena into tractable pieces. From Unknown unknowns over Fat Tails to Counterfactuals, this book will make lesser known but highly relevant models available for immediate use – in a visual way, supported by applicable case studies and without jargon.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Collect evidence 1 Illuminate your blind spots 2 Bust your biases 3 Explore your data Part 2 Connect the dots 4 Drill down 5 Move the needle 6 See the big picture Part 3 Craft the approach 7 Think on the margin 8 Score points 9 Walk the talk Part 4 Complete the mission 10 Multiply your possibilities 11 Engineer incentives 12 Make it happen 13 Conclusion Appendix: Confidence calibration Further resources

About the Author :
Simon Mueller is the General Manager of The Bruce Henderson Institute in New York, The Boston Consulting Group's (BCG) corporate strategy think-tank. The book is built on a broad body of evidence. It is the result of half a decade of research, and numerous interviews with academics at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School and MIT. Well connected series of advisers – including people like Steven Pinker Cass Sunstein, bestselling author of “Nudge”.   Julia Dhar is a Principal in the Boston office of the Boston Consulting Group, leading BeSmart, BCG's Behavioural Economics and Behavioural Insights initiative. Julia has advised and implemented major behaviour change efforts across a range of government services and topics, including economic development and planning, finance, labour, education and social welfare. She has worked with clients to embed the science of behaviour change in sectors as diverse as Airlines, Travel and Tourism, Energy, IT and Telecommunications. Julia is also a core member of the Public Sector, People and Organization and Social Impact Practices. Deeply involved in the firm's IP development on Impact Investing and the Future of Work, she was previously Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in New Zealand. Julia holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781292129334
  • Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 420 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1292129336
  • Publisher Date: 26 Sep 2019
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Series Title: Financial Times Series
  • Sub Title: 12 Tactics For Thinking Clearly, Navigating Uncertainty And Making Smarter Choices
  • Width: 183 mm


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