Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices
A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of others

When we think of leaders, we often imagine lone, inspirational figures lauded for their behaviors, attributes, and personal decisions—a perception that is reinforced by many leadership books. However, this approach ignores the expectations of modern work cultures centered on equity and inclusion, where a leader’s true mission is to empower others. Applying decades of behavioral science research, Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman offer a passionate corrective to this view, casting today’s organizations as decision factories in which effective leaders are decision architects, enabling those around them to make wise, ethical choices consistent with their own interests and the organization’s highest values. As a result, a leader’s impact grows because it ripples out instead of relying on one individual to play the part of heroic figure.
 
Filled with real-life stories and examples of the structures, incentives, and systems that successful leaders have used, this playbook equips each of us to facilitate wise decisions.
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Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices
A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of others

When we think of leaders, we often imagine lone, inspirational figures lauded for their behaviors, attributes, and personal decisions—a perception that is reinforced by many leadership books. However, this approach ignores the expectations of modern work cultures centered on equity and inclusion, where a leader’s true mission is to empower others. Applying decades of behavioral science research, Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman offer a passionate corrective to this view, casting today’s organizations as decision factories in which effective leaders are decision architects, enabling those around them to make wise, ethical choices consistent with their own interests and the organization’s highest values. As a result, a leader’s impact grows because it ripples out instead of relying on one individual to play the part of heroic figure.
 
Filled with real-life stories and examples of the structures, incentives, and systems that successful leaders have used, this playbook equips each of us to facilitate wise decisions.
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Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices

Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices

Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices

Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices

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A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of others

When we think of leaders, we often imagine lone, inspirational figures lauded for their behaviors, attributes, and personal decisions—a perception that is reinforced by many leadership books. However, this approach ignores the expectations of modern work cultures centered on equity and inclusion, where a leader’s true mission is to empower others. Applying decades of behavioral science research, Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman offer a passionate corrective to this view, casting today’s organizations as decision factories in which effective leaders are decision architects, enabling those around them to make wise, ethical choices consistent with their own interests and the organization’s highest values. As a result, a leader’s impact grows because it ripples out instead of relying on one individual to play the part of heroic figure.
 
Filled with real-life stories and examples of the structures, incentives, and systems that successful leaders have used, this playbook equips each of us to facilitate wise decisions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300281996
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 04/08/2025
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Don A. Moore is the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Professor of Leadership and Communication at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Leading the Decisions of Others 1

2 Guts vs. Brains 19

3 Be Investigator-in-Chief 44

4 Calibrate Your Confidence 62

5 Advice, Persuasion, and Collaboration 85

6 Recruiting the Best Evidence 105

7 Negotiate for One and All 124

8 A Higher Purpose 143

9 Nudging Toward Better Leadership 167

10 Designing a Better Decision Factory 182

Appendix: Decision Biases 195

Acknowledgments 211

Notes 213

Index 239

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