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Author | : Stephen Weir |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781740456692 |
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History is strewn with mistakes. Many made by well intentioned people who were bright, intelligent, capable, but just made the wrong decision.
Author | : Stephen Weir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-07 |
Genre | : Decision making |
ISBN | : 9781845375386 |
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Mankind's past is strewn with mistakes, colossal blunders driven by virtue as often as vice. This is an entertaining look at some monumental mishaps, from Adam and Eve's decision to eat the apple and Nero's burning down of his own city to the destruction of the Himalayan rain forest and the billions of dollars wasted on the Y2K scare.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780517549773 |
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Author | : Stephen Weir |
Publisher | : B.E.S. Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Errors |
ISBN | : 9780764159176 |
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The 64 A.D. burning of Rome during the reign of Nero . . . Winston Churchill's ill-conceived and disastrous World War I plan to invade Turkey at Gallipoli . . . the Maginot Line, built in France in 1929-34 in a foolhardy effort to prevent the feared German invasion . . . the 1950s thalidomide pharmaceutical disaster that resulted in at least 20,000 babies born with deformities . . . the 1989-91 misappropriation of company funds by publishing executive Robert Maxwell, and the collapse of his financial empire . . . the Enron scandal of 2000 that brought down a yet larger business empire. Chronicled in these pages are stories of corporate chicanery, poor military decisions, engineering disasters, diplomatic blunders, and other appalling, large-scale mistakes that resulted in ruin and misery for countless innocent bystanders. Here are baleful tales motivated by false hope, anger, greed, pride, lust, and many other instances of erratic human behavior. A selection of approximately 50 disastrous decisions are presented, each grim account summarized in a report of roughly a half-dozen pages and enhanced with sidebars and thumbnail-sized cartoon-style illustrations. Each account opens with its cast of characters, then sets the story's background before reporting the grim details and concluding with the unhappy moral. Here is a page-turner of a book that recounts some of history's most dramatic-but also catastrophic-moments.
Author | : Stephen Weir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Decision making |
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Author | : Zachary Shore |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2010-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1608192547 |
Download Blunder Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For anyone whose best-laid plans have been foiled by faulty thinking, Blunder reveals how understanding seven simple traps-Exposure Anxiety, Causefusion, Flat View, Cure-Allism, Infomania, Mirror Imaging, Static Cling-can make us all less apt to err in our daily lives.
Author | : Alan Axelrod |
Publisher | : Union Square + ORM |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1402798822 |
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The bestselling author of Profiles in Audacity returns with an “illuminating [and] entertaining” study of historically bad decisions (Publishers Weekly). In an engrossing anecdotal format, historian and bestselling author Alan Axelrod turns to the dark side of audacious decision-making—and explores history’s most tragic errors, the people who made them, and why they happened. While Axelrod looks at the hopelessly dumb and the overtly evil, the main focus is on smart people who had the best of intentions—but whose plans went disastrously wrong. The 35 compelling stories include the sailing of the “unsinkable” Titanic; Edward Bernays’s 1929 campaign to recruit women smokers; Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazis; Ken Lay’s deception with Enron; and even the choice to create a “New Coke” and fix what wasn’t broke. These are cautionary tales that any decision-maker can learn from—albeit with exquisite twists ranging from acerbic to horrific.
Author | : Ian Whitelaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
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ISBN | : 9781770224339 |
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Author | : Sydney Finkelstein |
Publisher | : Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-02-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1422133370 |
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Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision--without the benefit of hindsight? Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell show how the usually beneficial processes of the human mind can become traps when we face big decisions. The authors show how the shortcuts our brains have learned to take over millennia of evolution can derail our decision making. Think Again offers a powerful model for making better decisions, describing the key red flags to watch for and detailing the decision-making safeguards we need. Using examples from business, politics, and history, Think Again deconstructs bad decisions, as they unfolded in real time, to show how you can avoid the same fate.
Author | : Stephen Weir |
Publisher | : Pier 9 |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2018-01-24 |
Genre | : Decision making |
ISBN | : 9781760523190 |
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History's biggest mistakes and the people who made them. Get the lowdown on some of the most significant misjudgments of all time. Revisit history's biggest miscalculations and the people who made them. From Adam and Eve to Rasputin and General Custer, meet heroes and villains from throughout the ages. Illustrated with full-colour photographs and illustrations, The Worst Decisions...Ever! takes you through the disastrous events as they unfolded from ancient to modern times. History is a catalogue of errors, and The Worst Decisions...Ever! shines a light on some of the biggest. Starting with Adam and Eve's original lapse of culinary judgment, author Stephen Weir takes you on a tour from the Trojan War to the Enron scandal, meeting such famous culprits as Cleopatra, Winston Churchill and Robert Mugabe along the way.