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Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions

November 19, 2009
Sydney Finkelstein professor, management, Dartmouth College
Sally Jackson founder, Jackson & Company

Sydney Finkelstein, bestselling author and the Steven Roth Professor of Management for the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, joins Sally Jackson, public relations consultant and founder of Jackson & Company, to discuss the ways our minds are lured into making misguided judgments, and why organizations' decision-making processes so often fail to correct those mistakes. Most importantly, he indentifies the way wise leaders sidestep these pitfalls, and how you can do the same.

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