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Noise

Olivier Sibony, Daniel Kahneman & Cass R. Sunstein

4.0 (52 ratings)
10 mins

Two identical cases, two wildly different outcomes, and no one notices. Daniel Kahneman reveals that the biggest threat to good decisions is not bias but noise, the invisible randomness hiding inside every judgment we make.

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For managers, leaders, and professionals who make consequential decisions every day and want practical tools to replace gut feelings with systems that are fair, consistent, and far more accurate.

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Olivier Sibony is a French academic and author specializing in behavioral strategy, focusing on how cognitive biases and heuristics shape strategic decision-making. He is a Professor of Strategy and Management at HEC Paris and an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School at Oxford University. He co-authored the New York Times best-seller "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment" with Daniel Kahneman and Cass R. Sunstein. Previously, he spent over two decades at McKinsey & Company, rising to senior partner in 2004.

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