Decision-Making
How do you choose well when you cannot know the outcome? This page covers gut feeling versus careful thought, the biases that trip us up, and simple ways to weigh risk.
Decision-Making Library
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
A Promised Land
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets: 5 Questions to Help You Determine Your Next Move
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Astroball: The New Way to Win it All
Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
Buy This, Not That: How to Spend Your Way to Wealth and Freedom
Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything
Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Conquering Crisis: Ten Lessons to Learn Before You Need Them
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
Choose Possibility: Take Risks and Thrive (Even When You Fail) – A Silicon Valley Executive's Guide to Career Success
Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life
Don’t Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
Distancing: How Great Leaders Reframe to Make Better Decisions
Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Decision Making and Problem Solving: Break Through Barriers and Banish Uncertainty at Work
Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Freedom: Memories 1954 – 2021
Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
Fix This Next: Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business
Financial Literacy for Managers: Finance and Accounting for Better Decision-Making
Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know about the Numbers
How Google Works
Holacracy: The New Management System that Redefines Management
Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring℠ to Build Great Teams
Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management
Great People Decisions: Why They Matter So Much, Why They Are So Hard and How You Can Master Them
Good Team, Bad Team: Lead Your People to Go After Big Challenges, Not Each Other
How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business
How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking