Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls
Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis
Why have more business books not been written on the subject of decision-making? That moment of truth when an organisation commits to a course of action would seem to be pretty important. And yet, while there is no shortage of wise-after-the-event studies of why great businesses appear to have succeeded, and why lousy businesses have failed, few books have grappled head-on with the subject of judgment itself.
One reason, given by Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis in their weighty new book, is that it is simply very hard to define all the elements that lie behind big judgment calls. What we crudely label “gut feel” in fact usually emerges from years of experience, reflection and planning.
The authors, both distinguished professors – Tichy is based at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, while Bennis’s academic home is the University of Southern California – are well placed to offer a view. Between them they have several decades of experience, having consulted and observed top teams in a range of big corporations.
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