Saturday, December 26, 2009

Daily Thoughts 12/26/2009

Miniature books, including Pushkin and Eugene Onegin




Daily Thoughts 12/26/2009

Right now, I am reading Think Again Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep It from Happening to You by Sidney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell. The book opens with the decision making process that led to the disaster at Hurricane Katrina. So far the focus has been on pattern recognition and emotions in the decision making process. The examples are quite good; Operation Market Garden during World War II, and Quaker's acquisition of Snapple are two interesting cases they cover. In addition to strategy it also covers the neuroscience of decisionmaking.

I put Retro Pulp, edited by Joe Lansdale on hold for me to read later.

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