Review: Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan

4 Star, Decision-Making & Decision-Support
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Francesca Gino

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book That Could Be Made Better, April 7, 2013

I received this book as a gift and was glad to get it. As a professional intelligence officer I have been fascinated for decades by the mystery of why smart people make stupid decisions — completely apart from outight corruption. This book is most helpful in addressing nine specific contexts within which good decisions gets sidetracked into bad decisions, and I certainly recommend it as a gift for any thinking person, perhaps for a long airplane ride. It does not address my larger focus on “information pathologies”

The book is structured to address three forces impacting on the how of our decisions:

01 Forces from within
02 Forces from our relationships
03 Forces from the outside

The author concludes with a summary of the “nine step program” for not getting sidetracked:

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