The Six Biases of Decision-Making

The Six Biases of Decision-Making

25mIntermediate2021-07-18

Authors

Drew Boyd

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