Ep 56 - Don Moore, Professor at the Haas School of Business: Expand your influence through “Decision Leadership”

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com SHOW NOTES: What if leadership did not require changing hearts and minds? What if you could make a big impact by making small adjustments that lead people to make better decisions, which created better outcomes? In this episode, I speak with decision-making and leadership expert Don Moore, Professor and Associate Dean at the Haas School of Business, about his latest book, Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices. Don is on a mission to expand how we think of leadership. We discuss when to deliberate vs rely on intuition, how to get quality advice from experts, and ways to create more ethical organizations. It’s not all happy talk: He lays the smack down on Malcolm Gladwell and cautions against the downsides that his field may unwittingly produce.Behavioral economics 101: major advancements since the field emerged in the 1990sWhy he wrote his new book3 “non-traditional acts” that Don argues should be included in the field of leadershipHow his message has been received by leadership scholarsThe upside – and risks -- of simple, cheap behavioral science interventions (example of overstated results with “belongingness interventions”)Skeptical? Run more experiments (and how to do them properly)!Be skeptical of grandiose claims – and make bets through “contingent contracts”The smackdown-breakdown on the usefulness of intuition, popularized in Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller, Blink.The value of deliberationThe strengths of algorithmic models – and how are they trainedMobs vs Crowds: How to get advice from others, without amplifying overestimationThe role leaders play setting – and designing -- the ethical toneDon’s next inspiring challenge: “You can’t pick the moment when greatness calls” BIO AND LINKS: Don Moore is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and holds the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Carleton College and his Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from Northwestern University. His research interests include overconfidence, including when people think they are better than they actually are, when people think they are better than others, and when people are too sure they know the truth. His research has appeared in popular press outlets and academic journals, from Psychological Review to Harvard Business Review. Don is the author, with Max Bazerman, of Decision Leadership and the widely used textbook, Judgement in Managerial Decision Making. He teaches popular classes on managing organizations, negotiation, and decision making. He is only occasionally overconfident. Previous episode on 97% Effective, where Don and I discuss his Book, Perfectly Confident: https://stream.redcircle.com/episodes/06780ce7-2b31-422f-b5cf-4879c49aa4a5/stream.mp3Decision Leadership, the Book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259698/decision-leadership/Haas Faculty Profile: https://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/moore-don/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-moore-01725b/LearnMoore at the Moore Accuracy Lab at Berkeley Haas: http://learnmoore.org/about.html his self-aggrandizing autobiographical sketch)Hass Berkeley Executive Education programs: https://executive.berkeley.eduTop behavioral science books that have shaped the field: Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman); Predictably Irrational (Ariely); Decisive (Health & Health); Nudge (Thaler and Sunstein); Misbehaving (Thaler).Colin Kaepernick acts of protest – or leadership? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBdoDOXMWkgBruce Friedrich shifts from activism to setting up the Good Food Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxXUWDt0MqwJessie Wisdom, Co-founder of Humu, on interventions: https://www.humu.com/team/jessie-wisdom“Behavioral Science BS” (Interview with Jason Hreha on 97% Effective: https://redcircle.com/shows/97-effective/ep/0310f040-0b91-4dce-901a-0c39433efb53Jason Hreha, applied behavioral scientist: https://www.thebehavioralscientist.com/aboutOverblown results? RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence From Two Nudge Units (Haas research): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3982/ECTA18709Don’s article on the lure of overconfident leaders: Leadership & Overconfidence, Behavioral Science and Policy: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=62299Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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