Opening book details…
Can I read Thinking in Bets : Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts on EtoBox?
Thinking in Bets : Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Duke, Annie, 1965- is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Thinking in Bets : Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts about?
"Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and trailing by four at the Patriots' one-yard line, he called for a pass instead of a hand off to his star running back. The pass was intercepted and the Seahawks lost. Critics called it the dumbest play in history. But was the call really that bad? Or did Carroll actually make a great move that was ruined by bad luck? Even the best decision doesn't yield the best outcome every time. There's always an element of luck that you can't control, and there is always information that is hidden from view. So the key to long-term success (and avoiding worrying yourself to death) is to think in bets: How sure am I? What are the possible ways things could turn out? What decision has the highest odds of success? Did I land in the unlucky 10% on the strategy that works 90% of the time? Or is my success attributable to dumb luck rather than great decision making? Annie Duke, a former World Series of Poker champion tur
Who reads Thinking in Bets : Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Duke, Annie, 1965-
- Publisher
- Portfolio/Penguin, [2019]
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780735216358
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- Management, Business
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (3,914 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
More by Duke, Annie, 1965-
Browse all works by Duke, Annie, 1965-
Similar books
- Thriving in Relationships When You Have OCD — Mariaskin, Amy; Quinlan, Kimberley
- Reading Well : When You Have a Condition — Anita Ganeri; Ximena Jeria; Stewart Foster; Sally Harris; Louise Spilsbury; Kate Power; Kathy Iwanczak Forsyth; Vicky Martin; Susan Ozer (2013)
- Have You Started Yet? : Getting the Facts Straight — Ruth Thomson (1995)
- Sexual Harassment : You Don't Have to Take It! — New Jersey; New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (1995)
- All You Have In Common (carnegie-mellon Poetry Series) — Dara Barrois/Dixon (1984)
- What to Do -- When You Have Been Cheated — California. Department of Justice. (1966)