Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep It from Happening to You

摘要

Decision making lies at the heart of both professional and personal life and when wrong decisions are made, the consequences can be dire. Leaders have to make decisions that can affect the entire company and possibly have even wider implications and yet, good leaders, even great leaders, can and do (say the authors) make bad decisions. Examples given to illustrate this are President Kennedy's blunder over the Bay of Pigs, President Hoover's failure to inflate the economy after the crash of 1929 and Margaret Thatcher's championing of a 'poll tax' that led to her being ousted from her own party. Business leaders too, are prone to misjudgement; the CEO of Daimler-benz, CEO of Samsung and the founder of Wang electronics are cited as examples.