The Seven Deadly Stupidities: Using Other People's Failures to Make Better Decisions

80% of Success is Avoiding Stupidity History repeats itself. Unfortunately, so does bad decision-making. There are many references to the fact that we make 35,000 decisions per day, of which about seventy are real decisions that are made consciously, and only a few big decisions that can affect the trajectory of your life or career. Most books that include decision-making are focused on how-to-advice and provide recipes for making better decisions. These books are intended to help people select a career and advance in a career and how to manage their way to the C-suite. There are many titles that tell you how to get a better job, how to be a better manager, or how to improve your career and life by improving your habits.This is not one of those books. The Seven Deadly Stupidities: Using Other People's Failures to Make Better Decisions takes a different approach by illustrating negative events that could have been avoided if the players were just aware of stupidities. Research demonstrates that we are three to four times more likely to respond to negative stimuli when compared with positive stimuli. Stupidities leverages this insight by identifying the seven deadliest mistakes we can make as we navigate decisions, analyzing the how and why of decisions gone wrong, and offering advice on how to avoid each stupidity in our own life and career. Stupidities uses a series of well-researched and vivid real-life stories from business, family, the military, and sports, and offers a post-mortem analyses of the point in the decision-making process where a stupidity influenced the decision. To provide balance, there are stupidity-defying heroes sprinkled throughout the book who made good decisions despite facing off against a stupidity. An invaluable and original guide to smarter decision-making, Stupidities empowers readers to learn from others' mistakes and transform the way they navigate life's biggest choices.