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Flawed Strategy
Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions
Taschenbuch von Beatrice Heuser
Sprache: Englisch

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Why did Volodymyr Zelensky doubt that Russia was preparing a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022? Why did British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decide to "do business with Herr Hitler" in Munich in 1938? And how was it that Israeli elites dismissed intelligence warnings of the Hamas attack in 2023? Had they not learned their lesson from the Egyptian-Syrian attack on Yom Kippur fifty years earlier?

In all these cases, smart decision-makers misjudged their adversaries, largely because they failed to understand how their enemies' actions and strategies were shaped by different values and beliefs to their own. We may think such beliefs are irrational merely because we do not share them. They may appear confusing and ill-judged. But as Beatrice Heuser ably shows in this pithy book, strategy-making is a tricky business, marred by bias, irrationality, bureaucratic politics, colliding government interests, and complex procedures and structures. Assessing our adversaries as 'rational actors' is a dangerous game that can lead to flawed and, on occasions, catastrophically bad decisions. This book explains why.
Why did Volodymyr Zelensky doubt that Russia was preparing a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022? Why did British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain decide to "do business with Herr Hitler" in Munich in 1938? And how was it that Israeli elites dismissed intelligence warnings of the Hamas attack in 2023? Had they not learned their lesson from the Egyptian-Syrian attack on Yom Kippur fifty years earlier?

In all these cases, smart decision-makers misjudged their adversaries, largely because they failed to understand how their enemies' actions and strategies were shaped by different values and beliefs to their own. We may think such beliefs are irrational merely because we do not share them. They may appear confusing and ill-judged. But as Beatrice Heuser ably shows in this pithy book, strategy-making is a tricky business, marred by bias, irrationality, bureaucratic politics, colliding government interests, and complex procedures and structures. Assessing our adversaries as 'rational actors' is a dangerous game that can lead to flawed and, on occasions, catastrophically bad decisions. This book explains why.
Über den Autor
Beatrice Heuser is Distinguished Professor in the Brussels School of Governance at the Free University of Brussels. She teaches Strategy at the General Staff Academy of the German armed forces.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction
1 The Rational/Irrational Actor Fallacy
2 Our Biases
3 Knowns and Unknowns (And How We Use Them)
4 Flaws and Quandries of Strategy Making
Epilogue
Select Bibliography
Endnotes
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781509566709
ISBN-10: 1509566708
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Heuser, Beatrice
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 213 x 138 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Beatrice Heuser
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.01.2025
Gewicht: 0,266 kg
Artikel-ID: 129646431
Über den Autor
Beatrice Heuser is Distinguished Professor in the Brussels School of Governance at the Free University of Brussels. She teaches Strategy at the General Staff Academy of the German armed forces.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction
1 The Rational/Irrational Actor Fallacy
2 Our Biases
3 Knowns and Unknowns (And How We Use Them)
4 Flaws and Quandries of Strategy Making
Epilogue
Select Bibliography
Endnotes
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781509566709
ISBN-10: 1509566708
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Heuser, Beatrice
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 213 x 138 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Beatrice Heuser
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.01.2025
Gewicht: 0,266 kg
Artikel-ID: 129646431
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