Thinking in Bets
Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
$61.39
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2018
Summary
Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result.
Wall Street Journal bestseller!
In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history. With 26 seconds remaining, and trailing by four at the Patriots’ one-yard line, he called for a pass instead of a hand off to his star running back. The pass was intercepted and the Seahawks lost…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780735216358 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0735216355 |
| Author: | Annie Duke |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Portfolio |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 413g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 147mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“A mind-bending and indispensable book for entrepreneurs, leaders, and anyone who faces risk on a regular basis.”
– Olivia Fox Cabane author of The Net and the ButterflyBrilliant. Buy ten copies and give one to everyone you work with. It’s that good. – Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception
“Through wonderful storytelling and sly wit, Annie Duke has crafted the ultimate guide to thinking about risk. We can all learn how to make better decisions by learning from someone who made choices for a living, with millions on the line.”
– Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster BetterThinking in Bets offers a compelling, and eminently useful, new way to think about life’s decisions. Annie Duke has written an important, and often hilarious, book that will help you understand your own shortcomings–and make smarter choices as a result. You can bet on it. – Maria Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game and Mastermind
An elegant fusion of poker-table street-smarts and cognitive science insights. This book will make you both a shrewder and wiser player in the game of life. – Philip E. Tetlock, author of Superforecasting
Annie Duke
Annie Duke is a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, the winner of the 2004 Tournament of Champions and the only woman to win the NBC National Poker Heads Up Championship. Now, as a professional speaker and decision strategist, she merges her poker expertise with her cognitive psychology graduate work at UPenn. She is a founder of How I Decide, a non-profit that creates curricula and tools to improve decision making and critical thinking skills for under-served middle schoolers.
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