A batch of the best highlights from what Lukas's read, .
What all of these things have in common is that they move information across an organization as fast as possible, and do so to empower immediate and responsive action. Their underlying assumption is that people are wise, and that if you can present them with accurate, real-time, reliable data about the real world in front of them, they’ll invariably make smart decisions.
Nine Lies About Work
Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall
The big reason you should care about emotional time travel errors is that nearly every decision you make now is based on an assumption of how you expect to feel in the future.
The Upside of Your Dark Side
Todd Kashdan, Robert Biswas-Diener
Because our thinking, with its subtle interplay of emotion and calculation, conscience and ambition, reflects the richness of the world around us, experiments to determine the characteristics of human planning and decision making in complex situations should, ideally, draw on reality.