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Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions
Blunder Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions Author:Zachary Shore How to prevent history from repeating itself: learn the seven cognition traps that undermine success. Where Malcolm Gladwell?s Blink considers rapid cognition, Zachary Shore?s Blunder identifies seven cognition traps, those insidious yet avoidable mindsets that lead to bad decision making. With examples drawn from history, p... more »olitics, business and economics, health care, even folk tales and pop culture, Shore illustrates the profound impact cognition traps can have on individuals, corporations, and entire nations. For anyone whose best-laid plans have been foiled by faulty thinking, Blunder helps us make wiser judgments by understanding what history can teach about blunders of the past.-Exposure Anxiety: fear of being exposed as weak-Causefusion: confusing the causes of complex events -Flat View: seeing the world in black and white -Cure-Allism: believing one cure solves all problems -Infomania: obsessive control of information -Mirror Imaging: thinking the other side thinks like you -Static Cling: refusal to accept fundamental change« less