Decision Making

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: Decision Making

Below are non-fiction books with a focus on decision making

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• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson

A

• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
• The Age of Paradox by Charles Handy
• Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
• The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu

B

• Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson
• Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel

C

• A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
• Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
• Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It by Ian Leslie

E

• The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod

F

• Five Questions to Finding Peace of Mind and Authentic Happiness by Armando S. Garcia

G

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

H

• Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

I

• Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth

M

• Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman
• Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene

N

• Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein

P

• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
• Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini

S

• The Secret Formula of Strategic Thinkers: Winning Steps for Sustained Success by Cory Smith
• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene B. Zimmerman
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman

T

• Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
• Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday

W

• Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki