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Perfectly Confident
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Perfectly Confident

How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely

Don A. Moore
HarperBusiness, 2020
First Edition: 2020

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Confidence is a Goldilocks trait: The right amount serves you well; too little or too much can hurt you. UC Berkeley management professor Don A. Moore introduces three forms of confidence and provides examples that illustrate why well-calibrated confidence is desirable. He offers valuable advice on how to develop and project a healthy sense of confidence that will reap benefits in your personal and professional life.

Take-Aways

  • Overconfidence and underconfidence are common and problematic. To calibrate them, weigh seven factors. 
  • First: Consider how you might be wrong.
  • Second: Assess the probability that you’re right.

About the Author

Don A. Moore, PhD, an expert on the psychology of decision making, is a professor of management at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and co-author of Judgment in Managerial Decision Making.

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    J. M. 5 months ago
    Good
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    M. W. 2 years ago
    Not the insights that were expected from the title of the book. Interesting to note that there are several ways into improve your objective decisions. Thanks for sharing.