Description
About the Author
Phil Rosenzweig is professor at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he works with leading companies on questions of strategy and organization. He is a native of Northern California, where he worked for Hewlett-Packard. Prior to IMD, he was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Rosenzweig's Ph.D. is from the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous articles in journals including Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Management Science, and Strategic Management Journal. His 2007 book, The Halo Effect...and the Eight Other Business Delusions that Deceive Managers, was described by the Wall Street Journal as a trenchant view of business and business advice" and lauded by Nassim Nicholas Taleb as one of the most important management books of all time."
Reviews
"Rosenzweig challenges the reader to contemplate the context of real-world decisions... [his] storytelling is fascinating." -- Huffington Post "[This] reads like a call to action for social-science researchers, imploring them to expand their scope and refine their methodology so that their conclusions will be more pertinent to the thorny choices faced by corporate leaders. Surely Mr. Rosenzweig is onto something here: Researchers need to venture outside the lab and observe the real-world expression of the phenomena they are dissecting." -- Wall Street Journal "Rosenzweig offers a different slant on how successful businessmen and other leaders assess risk... A provocative reconsideration of the power of positive thinking." -- Kirkus Reviews "Rosenzweig's advice is sound and his prose is highly readable." --Publishers Weekly "With compelling accounts and research results, Phil Rosenzweig takes us through the world of big, strategic decisions. They are thorny, complex, and risky, and he shows that they require analytic thinking, intuitive judgment, and personal confidence without certitude. Left Brain, Right Stuff delivers an invaluable framework for making good and timely decisions by all who sit in a leadership chair." -- Michael Useem, director of the Wharton Leadership Center, University of Pennsylvania, and co-author of Boards That Lead "No one thinks as clearly--and writes as clearly--as Phil Rosenzweig does about the diagnostic challenges of assessing the quality of business judgment and about the prescriptive challenges of improving it." -- Philip E. Tetlock, Annenberg University Professor, University of Pennsylvania, author of Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? "Left Brain, Right Stuff intrigued me on a number of levels. By parsing strategic situations, Rosenzweig convinces us that we control more than we think we do. When we believe in ourselves, we increase the probability of a great outcome. Then add in an understanding of 'winner take all' competition and the need to assess relative performance (not absolute performance), and my eyes were opened wide." -- Joanna Barsh, director emeritus, McKinsey and Co.
Awards
Commended for Axiom Business Book Awards (Leadership) 2015.
Book Information
ISBN 9781610393072
Author Phil Rosenzweig
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.
Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.
Weight(grams) 568g
Dimensions(mm) 165mm * 242mm * 29mm