The Six Biases of Decision-Making
25mIntermediate2021-07-18
Authors

Drew Boyd
Global leader in creativity and innovation
Course details
Want to make better decisions at work? In this short course, author, innovation expert, and professor Drew Boyd discusses ways to confront our hardwired cognitive biases, in order to make good decisions and exercise more balanced, sound judgment.
Skills covered
Decision-MakingLimited SeriesProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and Management
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Six biases of decision-making
1. The Most Common Cognitive Biases
- 02 - The base rate bias
- 03 - The confirmation bias
- 04 - The availability bias
- 05 - The hindsight bias
- 06 - The overconfidence bias
- 07 - The sunk cost bias
Conclusion
- 08 - Identifying bias is the first step in avoiding it
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