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Do you fit the management stereotype?

Chartered Management Institute

Probably the best known experiment into representativeness heuristics was conducted by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the 70's. So do you fit the stereotype of a great manager? Adi Gaskell is a manager at the Process Excellence Network. As it's Friday, and I'm a fun kinda guy, why don't you play along?

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Understanding Decision Bias

CO2

First, Arnott reviewed some of the most prominent taxonomies: Tversky and Kahneman (1974) Three General Purpose Heuristics Slovic, Fischhoff and Lichtenstein (1977), The look at overconfidence leads to not fully considering the problem and underestimating alternatives. Of all the taxonomies, the one I like best is one of the least well known.

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Decision Bias

CO2

First, Arnott reviewed some of the most prominent taxonomies: Tversky and Kahneman (1974) Three General Purpose Heuristics. Isenberg (1984), How Senior Managers Think. Of all the taxonomies, the one I like best is one of the least well known. Sage (1981), More than two dozen heuristics/biases have been cataloged.

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Decision Bias

CO2

First, Arnott reviewed some of the most prominent taxonomies: Tversky and Kahneman (1974) Three General Purpose Heuristics. Isenberg (1984), How Senior Managers Think. Of all the taxonomies, the one I like best is one of the least well known. Sage (1981), More than two dozen heuristics/biases have been cataloged.

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Your Judgment of Risk Is Compromised

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky provide perhaps the best theoretical framework in which to understand the phenomenon. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. Indeed, it is probably the most discussed empirical regularity in sports gambling markets, and the literature documenting it now runs to well over a hundred scientific papers.

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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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Reframe Your Strategy to Avoid Hidden Biases

Harvard Business Review

The last decade has seen an increased appreciation of behavioral economics and its effect on the practice of management. Their approach, however, does little to reveal the biases embedded in the assumptions held by management teams and reflected in the frameworks they use.