Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2023-09-19
Books mentioned on 10ish Worst Business Decisions Ever
It’s easy (and kind of fun) to laugh at the misfortune of CEOs and other high up business types when they bring it on themselves – so let’s do that now. Herein lies some of the worst business decisions ever made, hindsight being 20/20, of course.
Josh Clark discussed Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Blink
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is a popular psychology book that examines the power of the adaptive unconscious and how people make snap judgments based on thin slicing.
Discussed“but um Malcolm Gladwell in his book blink apparently pointed out that if you're doing a taste test you're not sitting there drinking a whole can you're just taking a little sip of something and comparing it to a sip of something else”
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