Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Blunders and Traps that Lead to Debacles

Nutt, Paul C.

ISBN 10: 1442966025 / ISBN 13: 9781442966024

Published by ReadHowYouWant, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Blunders and Traps that Lead to Debacles
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442966025
• ISBN 13: 9781442966024
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

People fear a decision that can turn into a debacle - a decision riddled with poor practices producing big losses that become public. This book reveals how a decision can turn into a fiasco and how to prevent this from happening.

About the Author

Paul C. Nutt is a professor of Management Sciences and Public Policy and Management in the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. (1974) from the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin–Madison and a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Michigan (1962, 1963), all in Industrial Engineering. He has written more than one hundred articles and six books. His current research interests include organizational decision making and radical change.
The decision-making stream of work, drawn upon to write this book, is taken from more than two decades of research into the decision-making practices used by people in organizations and how to improve them. Articles first appeared in 1984 and have continued at a steady pace since then, with several currently in press. In all, thirty-eight articles have appeared or will appear in referred journals and more are planned. This work has received numerous awards including two best theoretical/empirical paper awards from the Decision Sciences Institute, its top award, and several from the Academy of Management. His other work in decision making involves decision analysis, risk measurement, using MBTI and the Ennea- gram to identify a person’s decision style, Multiattribute Utilities, ethics, and learning.