The Power of Noticing, Max Bazerman
The Power of Noticing, Max Bazerman
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The Power of Noticing
What the Best Leaders See

Author: Max Bazerman

Narrator: Holter Graham

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/05/2014


Synopsis

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.

About Max Bazerman

Max Bazerman is the codirector of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Straus Professor at the Harvard Business School, and the author of numerous books, including Negotiation Genius with Deepak Malhotra, Blind Spots with Ann E. Tenbrunsel, and Judgment in Managerial Decision Making with Don A. Moore. He has taught, advised companies, and consulted to governments in thirty countries. He is on numerous editorial boards. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of London, the Life Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, and the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management, among many other awards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Charlie

This is a book about how the ability to see things that others don't and use such insight to make decisions is a competitive advantage for leaders. The premise is that the best leaders have an ability to notice additional information that is otherwise invisible to others and thus is essential to the......more

Goodreads review by Sandy

The author made good points but those points could've been made in perhaps a quarter of the book or less. Based on the amount of highlighting I did, the key thoughts made up less than about 20 pages and the rest was stories used to prove the key points, over and over again. There was a fair amount o......more

Goodreads review by Nicolas

Interesting premise, but this book was a bit sloppy. In each chapter, the author tends to introduce a vague idea (generally pulled from others' work, rather than a new concept) and details a couple real-world examples that are sometimes interesting, but only superficially linked to the original conc......more

Goodreads review by Stan

Demerits: It was a very easy read, however, it read more like a piece of pop-science. It constantly harps on how we should notice things that may occur in the future and the consequences of short-termism. However, the book doesn't adequately address criticisms to his theories like a lack of resources......more