Book cover for HBR's 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions (with featured article "Before You Make That Big Decision..." by Daniel Kahneman, Dan Lovallo, and Olivier Sibony) by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Kahneman and Ram Charan

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions (with featured article "Before You Make That Big Decision..." by Daniel Kahneman, Dan Lovallo, and Olivier Sibony)

2013 Released
192 Pages
3-4 Hours
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Harvard Business Review PressISBN 9781422191439

Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers—and how to make better ones.

If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organization make better choices and avoid common traps.

Leading experts such as Ram Charan, Michael Mankins, and Thomas Davenport provide the insights and advice you need to:

  • Make bold decisions that challenge the status quo
  • Support your decisions with diverse data
  • Evaluate risks and benefits with equal rigor
  • Check for faulty cause-and-effect reasoning
  • Test your decisions with experiments
  • Foster and address constructive criticism
  • Defeat indecisiveness with clear accountability

Daniel Kahneman

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Ram Charan


Ram Charan is the coauthor of bestsellers Execution and Confronting Reality and the author of What the CEO Wants You to Know and 10 other books. A noted expert on business strategy, he has coached some of the world's most successful CEOs and helped companies like GE, Bank of America, Verizon, KLM, and Thomson shape and implement their strategic direction.

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