My Review 4/5

This is an incredibly long book that can be summarized in a few points:
* Collect data to make data-based decisions
* Watch out for the narrative fallacy
* Build a culture of learning from mistakes

If you’ve read Good to Great or Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) or Thinking, Fast and Slow you’ve been exposed to a lot of the stories and anecdotes of this book.

Other key concepts include cognitive dissonance, fundamental attribution error and breaking ambitions goals into discrete measurable chunks.

All in all, a good book.

Date Read

Date Added

2019/08/27

Goodreads book information

Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do by Matthew Syed

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24611735

Bookshelves: business

Author’s Note

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Matthew Syed, Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do, Portfolio 2015 (Hardcover)1

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  1. ISBN: =”1591848229” ↩