HOW LEADERS DECIDE by Greg Bustin is subtitled "A Timeless Guide to Making Tough Choices." To motivate and inform business leaders, Bustin has provided 52 decision situations, designed to be read one per week over the course of a year. He accompanies each story with a thought-provoking question (e.g., If you were honored for your life's work, what achievement would you celebrate? What legacy would you leave?). Unfortunately, Bustin chose to profile white males, almost exclusively. And he also tended to select well-known individuals (e.g., Julius Caesar, John Adams, and Winston Churchill) so this work has less impact and inspirational decision-making advice than might otherwise be the case. Perhaps for his next project, Bustin could explore additional biographical sketches and create a newer version of Frank Olsen's Inventors Who Left Their Brands on America? In the meantime, readers could also consider turning to titles like The Third Door (featuring advice from contemporary leaders and innovators) or They Made America (with a more historical perspective although he includes women and immigrants) by Harold Evans. In addition, Berger's The Big Book of Beautiful Questions, Case's Be Fearless or Morten's Great at Work offer valuable leadership advice.

I have not finished the book yet because I read little by little.
Its structure and organization allow it.
Nevertheless, I find a lot of interest in the lessons taught.
I loved Ford and Walt Disney.
I think this book is essential for any manager to strengthen his leadership.
A useful weekly reading in the subway
Thank you

I think the key takeaway from Greg's book is that leadership is a game of life long learning, that each moment and choice make is ultimately a lesson. If you made a bad choice, Greg teaches you how to learn from it, if you made the right choice, he again teaches you how to learn from it and repeat the good decisions.

Greg does not hide behind some simple formula that makes decision making any easier, he does equip the reader with stories of the great successes and failures and ways to learn from those stories to be able to grow your own decision making strength and confidence that you will own that outcome and learn and that is good.

I was not a fan of this book. Some of the stories were interesting but I had two problems with it. One, I do not think it was about decision making but rather it dealt more with leadership ideals. That's ok except that the title is misleading. Second, I don't think most executives will take a book like this and read it one chapter at a time as is recommended. In my experience when a leader is looking for a book about decision making they want to read the entire book and implement the relevant ideas quickly - or at least start to implement them quickly.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me an early release in exchange for an honest and fair review.

Very thoughtful book you need to follow reading as its structure suggests: week by week. Regardless your reading speed. You may need to think over each story suggested for each week as well as the questions about leadership that author asks. I like every story because it does give real life examples of leadership, responsibility, people, integrity and many things. It covers stories from the construction of Titanic to rescuing Apple by Steve Jobs when he came back to his company. Stories make it smart to deliver the message that will, otherwise, remain a theory without application to the reality.