Decision Making Books
How to Decide by Annie Duke
Here is a description from Amazon: "What do you do when you're faced with a big decision? If you're like most people, you probably make a pro and con list, spend a lot of time obsessing about decisions that didn't work out, get caught in analysis paralysis, endlessly...
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
From Amazon's description: "Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in...
Smart Choices by Howard Raiffa
From Amazon's Summary: "Where should I live? Is it time to get a new job? Which job candidate should I hire? What business strategy should I pursue? We spend the majority of our lives making decisions, both big and small. Yet, even though our success is largely...
Decision By Design by Shane Parrish
From Shane Parrish's "Decision by Design" "The process of decision making has been studied for ages. How to actually move through that process is the art form. The skills you’ll learn in Decision by Design have been tested over time and across industries. They work...
The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
From Amazon's Description: When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we...
“The Success Equation” by Michael Mauboussin
From Amazon's description: “Much of what we experience in life results from a combination of skill and luck.” — From the Introduction "The trick, of course, is figuring out just how many of our successes (and failures) can be attributed to each—and how we can learn to...
Decisive by Chip Heath
From Amazon's book description: "Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. We get distracted by...
Quit by Annie Duke
Summary from Amazon: "Business leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to abandon a new app or product that just isn’t working. Governments, caught in a hopeless conflict, believe that the next tactic will finally be the one that wins the war. And...
Think Again by Adam Grant
From Amazon's Description: "Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor...
Super Thinking
by Gabriel Weinberg From Amazon's description: The world's greatest problem-solvers, forecasters, and decision-makers all rely on a set of frameworks and shortcuts that help them cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones. They're called mental...
The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish
From Amazon's description: "The old saying goes, "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." But anyone who has done any kind of project knows a hammer often isn't enough. The more tools you have at your disposal, the more likely you'll use the right...
Judgement in Managerial Decision Making by Max Bazerman
From Amazon's Description: Behavioral decision research provides many important insights into managerial behavior. From negotiation to investment decisions, the authors weave behavioral decision research into the organizational realm by examining judgment in a variety...
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman is considered one the greatest and most influential living psychologist in the world. He is known for his work on the psychology of judgement and decision making. In 2002, he won the Nobel Prize for his work on how Biases and Heuristics affect Economic...
Noise by Daniel Kahneman
From Amazon's Description: From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones--"a tour de force” (New York...
You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake! by Olivier Sibony
From Amazon's Description "We all make decisions all the time. It's so natural that we hardly stop to think about it. Yet even the smartest and most experienced among us make frequent and predictable errors. So, what makes a good decision? Should we trust our...
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock
This is one of my favorite books. Now you can learn the art of and science of prediction! Professor Philip Tetlock of Upenn and Wharton Business School, has been studying forecasting for over 35 years. Tetlock was curious if experts were good at predicting...
Principles by Ray Dalio
Billionaire Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater, the biggest Hedge Fund in the world. This book is a collection of all the principles Ray Dalio uses for decision making, in business and in life. He first wrote "Principles" as a guide for his company's employees....
Influence by Robert Cialdini
From Amazon's description: "In the new edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller, Robert Cialdini—New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion—explains the psychology of why people say yes and how...
