Crucial Decisions: Leadership in Policymaking and Crisis Management - Hardcover

Janis, Irving L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0029161614 ISBN 13: 9780029161616

Publisher: The Free Press, 1989

Synopsis

The author shows corporate executives, organizational policymakers and general managers how to avoid errors and ensure quality decision-making. After analyzing frequent reasons for poor, often catastrophic decisions he offers 37 characteristics to help in personnel selection.

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Review:

Robert L. Kahn Institute for Social Research The University of Michigan "Crucial Decisions" is a remarkable book -- remarkable in its analyses of 19 international crises, in its comprehensive model of decision-making, and in its lucid presentation of so great a body of empirical research and theory. This book deserves a readership to match its breadth -- and that means academics of many disciplines, managers and those who teach them, and people at all levels of government.

About the Author:

Irving L. Janis is adjunct professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale, and author of two landmark books, Groupthink and, with Leon Mann, Decision Making (The Free Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: The Free Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0029161614
• ISBN 13: 9780029161616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384