In fact, we tend to sabotage our own results by giving the most weight to the positions stated first, shared the loudest, or held in common with the rest of the group. We tend to assume that a group of bright minds working together to solve a problem would yield the best outcome, but research has shown that isn’t always the case. If you work with groups of people in any way, this is a great read with lots of useful nuggets. Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter No mess is too big once you know how to properly tackle one. Whether we’re dealing with a crisis at work or at home, find ourselves in a muck with other people, or are trying to make sense of the deluge of information all around us, this book offers a 7 step process for making sense of it all. How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for EverybodyĪccording to the author, every “mess” has a similar structure. Written by recognized expert Douglas Hubbard-creator of Applied Information Economics- How to Measure Anything illustrates how the author has used his approach across various industries and how any problem, no matter how difficult, ill defined, or uncertain can lend itself to measurement (and therefore improvement) using proven methods. Peter Drucker famously said, “What gets measured, gets managed.” But how do you measure things as nebulous as customer satisfaction, organizational flexibility or the ROI of technology? On a side, if you’ve read Switch or Made to Stick you know how fun and easy a Heath brothers book is to read. Well researched and well written, this book offers a 4 step process to help overcome our natural biases and make better decisions. Unfortunately, merely being aware of these shortcomings doesn’t fix the problem, any more than knowing that we are nearsighted helps us to see. When it comes to making choices, it seems, our brains are flawed instruments. We get distracted by short-term emotions. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. Research has shown time and time again how irrational humans are in our thinking. Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work Here’s the list in no particular order: 1. So when I asked them what books on decision making influenced them, you can bet they had a lot to say. Who can you ask for book recommendations on decision making? At Re:Think Decision Making, I asked a crowd that one former ivy league professor called “the best public crowd he’s ever seen” what they would recommend reading. These people are paid to make decisions for a living and want to find every edge they can.
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