The Art of Decision Making: Mirrors of Imagination, Masks of Fate

by Helga Drummond

Science reassures, art disturbs (Proverb)
This intriguing exploration of underlying forces in decision making takes as its starting point a wealth of high profile decision disasters. In brilliantly readable analyses, Helga Drummond shows how better awareness of the inherent uncertainties of the decision making process could have made the outcomes very different.
Examples showcased
The Hatfield rail crash
The Kursk submarine disaster
The Challenger disaster
The year 2000 fuel crisis
The WWII Dardanelles expedition
The Barings Bank collapse
The Taurus Stock Exchange Project The Hillsborough tragedy
The King's Cross underground fire
The Millennium Dome
This entertaining yet instructive book offers new insight into the realities of decision making, and shows how you can confront them to improve your prospects of success.

Genres: Self Help

320 pages, Hardcover

First published August 22, 2001

Reviews

[Fawzi AlMahdi · Rating 4 out of 5]

طريقة عرض فن اتخاذ القرار ومناقشتها في هذا الكتاب جديدة بالنسبة لي.. مفيدة و توصل الفائدة المرجوة بشكل قصصي سلس.. ينصح به

[Faisal ElBeheiry · Rating 3 out of 5]

كتاب ممل نوعا ما

[Kirsten O · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was fine. It's basically a stream of conscious collection of anecdotes. It was interesting but the style was hard to take after awhile.

[Saleh]

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[Alwaleed]

الكتاب يحتوى على افكار متنوعه وجميله لكن يعيبه الترجمة فقط