No. It is because of the decisions they make. How Leaders Decide shows how to tackle the biases and risks that quietly steer every organisational decision, with stories from more than 160 real organisations.
Known as the R. K. Laxman of Business for turning complex ideas into simple stories. An alumnus of IIT Roorkee and INSEAD, he has made and watched business decisions for three decades, and poured that experience into this book.
Every leader decides all day. Most of those decisions are made in a hurry, in a group, with half the data and a few biases sitting quietly at the table.
Indian companies closed down in 2020 to 21 during the pandemic. They decided to wait instead of quickly aligning their business to a changing environment.
Quoted by the author at the launch of the bookimpediments sit behind most poor decisions. Missing information and human irrationality. The book shows how to spot both before they cost you.
From How Leaders DecideOrganisational decision making is not one person picking an option. It is a walk through a minefield of biases and execution issues. This book maps that minefield, from analysing key decisions of the past to shaping new ones.
Foreword by Harsh Goenka, Chairman, RPG Enterprises
“Kudos to Harjeet for writing such a phenomenal book on the most dominant subject of current times. In his lucid writing style, he engages in conversations around various decision-making models and behaviours in the business context.”
One book that takes a decision from the moment it is made to the moment it is evaluated
Why organisational decisions are different, and how to build decision driven organisations, competencies and a toolkit.
Build an environment of trust, ethics and creativity, and spot the biases that quietly ail decisions.
Plan, execute, manage change, communicate with impact and judge whether the decision worked.
From why organisational decisions are different, to making them effective, to the environment and biases around them, to executing and evaluating them.
Why decisions inside organisations follow their own rules
Organisations, people, data and tools that decide well
Trust, ethics, diversity and creativity
The quiet forces that steer decisions the wrong way
Because a decision is only as good as its execution
Along with the stories, the book walks you through the quantitative tools leaders use to make data driven and design led decisions.
Every framework comes alive through a real organisation's story. Here are a few you will meet in the book.
at every level who want to get decisions right and make them stick.
who make many small decisions a day and want a sharper way to make them.
who want a lucid primer on decision making before they step into corporate roles.
who solve hard problems and want to recognise the decision skills that make them successful.
who build decision driven organisations, empower the front line and lead change.
who want to move up the career ladder and do well in their personal lives too.
Read one chapter before your next review, hiring call or strategy meeting, and notice the difference.
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