How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More
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🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone welcome to the A6 and C podcast I am Sonal today we have another one of our |
| 0:05.7 | early book launch episodes for a new book coming out next week by expert decision |
| 0:11.0 | strategist and leading world series of poker player Annie Duke. |
| 0:14.4 | You can catch the podcast we did with her a couple years ago for the paperback release of her |
| 0:18.3 | first book, Thinking in Betts. |
| 0:20.3 | That episode was at me and Mark interviewing Annie and was titled Innovating in Betts, |
| 0:24.8 | as is perhaps also one of the signature themes of this podcast. |
| 0:27.9 | But in this episode we talk about her new book How to Decide, which picks up where the last book left off, and the discussion that |
| 0:35.0 | follows lots of useful strategies, tools, and mindsets for helping all kinds of people and |
| 0:40.5 | organizations decide under conditions of uncertainty. |
| 0:44.6 | Annie is interviewed by A6 and Z managing partner Jeff Jordan, who was previously CEO and |
| 0:49.4 | then Executive Chairman of Open Table, former GM of eBay, North America, and much more. |
| 0:54.5 | They begin by quickly covering common pitfalls and decision-making, then share specific |
| 0:59.2 | tools not to do and to-do, including how to operationalize good decision hygiene into teams and when to spend time |
| 1:07.0 | deciding or not, especially when not all decisions are equal and some may seem bigger and |
| 1:12.2 | more impactful, whether it's investing in life |
| 1:15.1 | decisions like getting married or business decisions such as what product to |
| 1:20.0 | invest in or what strategy to pursue or what market or what investment. |
| 1:23.4 | As a reminder, none of the following is investment advice, nor is it a solicitation for |
| 1:27.7 | investment in any of our funds. Please be sure to read a six-and-csee.com |
| 1:31.6 | slash disclosures for more important information. |
| 1:35.1 | So Annie, as the author of one of my favorite books, what motivated you to do a sequel, |
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