A "must-read" (Booklist) from Harvard Business School Professor and
Codirector of the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership:
A guide to making better decisions, noticing important information in
the world around you, and improving leadership skills.
Imagine your advantage in negotiations, decision-making, and leadership
if you could teach yourself to see and evaluate information that others
overlook. The Power of Noticing provides the blueprint for
accomplishing precisely that. Max Bazerman, an expert in the field of
applied behavioral psychology, draws on three decades of research and
his experience instructing Harvard Business School MBAs and corporate
executives to teach you how to notice and act on information that may
not be immediately obvious.
Drawing on a wealth of real-world examples and using many of the same
case studies and thought experiments designed in his executive MBA
classes, Bazerman challenges you to explore your cognitive blind spots,
identify any salient details you are programmed to miss, and then take
steps to ensure it won't happen again. His book provides a step-by-step
guide to breaking bad habits and spotting the hidden details that will
change your decision-making and leadership skills for the better,
teaching you to pay attention to what didn't happen, acknowledge
self-interest, invent the third choice, and realize that what you see is
not all there is.
While many bestselling business books have explained how susceptible to
manipulation our irrational cognitive blind spots make us, Bazerman
helps you avoid the habits that lead to poor decisions and ineffective
leadership in the first place. With The Power of Noticing at your
side, you can learn how to notice what others miss, make wiser
decisions, and lead more successfully.
