Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

Today’s Important Book Titled “Farsighted”


Mon 02 Dec 2019 | 01:20 PM
Ahmed Yasser

Big life altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day and they’re also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to start a company, how to end a war.

 There’s no one-size-fits-all approach for addressing these kinds of conundrums. The smartest decision-makers don’t go with their guts. Their success relies on having a future-oriented approach and the ability to consider all their options in a creative and productive way.

Farsighted

The book deals with making complex decisions, which is something different from making decisions in complex situations, but fails to mention Herbert Simon’s insight that what are perceived to be complex problems in the first place results from lack of sufficient broad knowledge.

Through compelling stories that reveal surprising insights ”Johnson” explains how we can most effectively approach the choices that can chart the course of a life, an organization or a civilization. ”Farsighted” will help you imagine your possible futures and appreciate the subtle intelligence of the choices that shaped our broader social history.

In Farsighted, he uncovers powerful tools for honing the important skill of complex decision-making. While you can’t model a once-in-a-lifetime choice you can model the deliberative tactics of expert decision-makers.

These experts aren’t just the master strategists running major companies or negotiating high-level diplomacy. They’re the novelists who draw out the complexity of their characters’ inner lives, the city officials who secure long-term water supplies and the scientists who reckon with future challenges most of us haven’t even imagined.

The book does not offer anything new, it is a rumination of aspects and dimensions all well known in decision theory.The book is a pleasant and entertaining read by anecdotes, but fails to offer new or even deeper insights for sound farsighted decision making.