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Understanding Decision Bias

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He who knows not and knows that he knows not, He is a child, teach him. – Arabian proverb As an executive coach, I have read many books about executive coaching and leadership. Of all the taxonomies, the one I like best is one of the least well known.

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Decision Bias

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As an executive coach, I have read many books about executive coaching and leadership. I have attended programs at some of the finest executive coaching and leadership training programs in the world. First, Arnott reviewed some of the most prominent taxonomies: Tversky and Kahneman (1974) Three General Purpose Heuristics.

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Decision Bias

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As an executive coach, I have read many books about executive coaching and leadership. I have attended programs at some of the finest executive coaching and leadership training programs in the world. First, Arnott reviewed some of the most prominent taxonomies: Tversky and Kahneman (1974) Three General Purpose Heuristics.

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What I Didn’t Know About Becoming a CEO

Harvard Business Review

That doesn’t mean I was a novice in promoting an idea; as a young analyst at Fidelity Investments, I needed to convince the managers of the large mutual funds to buy my stock ideas. And yet from the minute we received our SEC approval to manage clients’ assets, I became our chief salesperson. That made a huge impact on me.

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Keep Experts on Tap, Not on Top

Harvard Business Review

The psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrated quite convincingly that we human beings are not the model-optimizing "rational" actors that many economists historically believed we are. Those who see the world probabilistically seem to better navigate volatile environments because they are wired to embrace uncertainty.

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Instinct Can Beat Analytical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. What’s the problem with the way that turkey approached risk management?