Sidetracked(English, Hardcover, Gino Francesca)

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Sidetracked(English, Hardcover, Gino Francesca) is written by Gino Francesca and published by Harvard Business Review Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1422142698 (ISBN 10) and 9781422142691 (ISBN 13).

You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on your decisions and behavior, often diverting you from your original plans and desires. Sidetracked will help you identify and avoid these influences so the decisions you make do stick—and you finally reach your intended goals. Psychologist and Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino has long studied the factors at play when judgment and decision making collide with the results of our choices in real life. In this book she explores inconsistent decisions played out in a wide range of circumstances—from our roles as consumers and employees (what we buy, how we manage others) to the choices that we make more broadly as human beings (who we date, how we deal with friendships). From Gino’s research, we see when a mismatch is most likely to occur between what we want and what we end up doing. What factors are likely to sway our decisions in directions we did not initially consider? And what can we do to correct for the subtle influences that derail our decisions? The answers to these and similar questions will help you negotiate similar factors when faced with them in the real world. For fans of Dan Ariely and Daniel Kahneman, this book will help you better understand the nuances of your decisions and how they get derailed—so you have more control over keeping them on track. Review First off, Do not get ‘sidetracked’ by the title of this really good work. In fact, that’s exactly what I did. Looking at the cover I thought this was a book on how to stick to your plans get things done. But sidetracked by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino talks about something much more interesting how our “good” intentions are often undermined by hidden biases and agendas. The book deals with those subtle influences that often force us to get ‘offtrack’ even in the simplest decision-making situations. Often, what we think is right and proper is not what our actions reflect and thus we get sidetracked.  By BINNY BANSAL About the Author Francesca Gino is Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations, & Markets Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on judgment and decision making, social influence, and ethics and creativity. Her studies have been featured on CNN and NPR, as well as in leading print publications including Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, Newsweek, Scientific American, and Psychology Today. In 2009, the New York Times featured Gino’s research in The 9th Annual Year in Ideas.