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Business success stories may be instructive, but we need to know more about why smart people make bad decisions. In this short-form book, Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business who has studied these crucial questions for almost twenty years, tells how decisions really get made and describes the four signals that can alert you when emotions are interfering with your thinking.
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