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The Judgment Gap
Why Smart Executives Make Bad Calls Under Pressure
Intelligence doesn't protect senior leaders from predictable decision failures — it often disguises them. This book names four specific, recurring judgment traps: the confidence trap, the false urgency of speed, the sunk-cost seat, and groupthink at the top, each illustrated through real patterns from executive coaching and each paired with a specific, practical counter-move for the moment it's actually happening, not just in hindsight.
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Who Should Read This
- ✓Senior executives and decision-makers who make high-stakes calls under real time pressure
- ✓Leaders who've made a decision they later recognized as a predictable mistake, not a fluke
- ✓Board members and executives responsible for challenging groupthink in the room
- ✓Anyone who wants a framework for catching bad judgment in real time, not just after the fact
What You'll Learn
- ★The Confidence Trap — how expertise itself can produce overconfident bad calls
- ★A direct challenge to the False Urgency of Speed in high-stakes decisions
- ★The Sunk Cost Seat and how it quietly distorts otherwise rational executives
- ★A practical framework for recognizing and interrupting groupthink at the top
- ★Real-time counter-moves for each trap, not just after-the-fact diagnosis
