How Emotional Tagging Can Push Leaders to Make Bad Decisions

Name: How Emotional Tagging Can Push Leaders to Make Bad Decisions (English version)
SKU: 9B09TA04

Jo Whitehead; Andrew Campbell

Product #:9B09TA04

Supplier:Ivey Business Journal

Discipline:General Management

Details:Article (PDF) • 11 pages • 2009-01-01

Subjects:

Leadership Leadership and managing people Management

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One-time Ford CEO and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was the archetypal numbers man. No human failing such as emotions could influence a decision. Like McNamara, today's CEOs who think they're basing their decisions only on reason are deceiving themselves - and jeopardizing the company's viability. These authors have written a forthcoming book on the subject, and in this article they describe how leaders can understand the powerful pull that emotions have on their decisions.