Reduce “Noise” and Improve Your Organization’s Decision Making

Reduce “Noise” and Improve Your Organization’s Decision Making

If we could only remove bias from our decision-making, both conscious and unconscious bias, the decisions we make would be so much better. And that’s true… up to a point. There is something else, however, we need to consider, and that is noise. And wherever there’s a judgment being made, there is noise, and more of it than we think. That is a topic of an absolutely fascinating new book called Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment.

And it’s a pleasure to have with us its co-author, Harvard Law School professor, who’s currently on leave to work in the Biden administration, Cass Sunstein. 

The Role Cognitive Biases Played in the Spread of COVID-19

The Role Cognitive Biases Played in the Spread of COVID-19

We make decisions all the time, yet even the smartest and most experienced among us make frequent and predictable errors as a result of all too common cognitive biases. What are some of those biases?  And which ones have come into play as government and others make decisions about the COVID 19 pandemic? To find out, it’s a pleasure to have with us, Olivier Sibony, the author of a fascinating new book called You’re About to Make a Terrible Mistake! How Biases Distort Decision-Making and What You Can Do to Fight Them.