Tools and Techniques to Improve your Decision Making with Dr. Michael Roberto | The Good Leadership Podcast #47

Dr. Michael Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI. He joined the tenured faculty at Bryant after serving for six years on the faculty at Harvard Business School. He has also has been a Visiting Associate Professor of Management at New York University's Stern School of Business.

His research focuses on decision making, teamwork, and leadership. He has published three books, the latest of which is titled Unlocking Creativity (Wiley, 2019), Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes For An Answer (2nd edition published in 2013), and Know What You Don’t Know (published in 2009). He also has developed three Great Courses lecture series, the best-selling Everest Leadership and Team Simulation, and the award-winning Columbia’s Final Mission multi-media case study about the 2003 space shuttle accident.

Dr. Roberto has taught in the leadership development programs and consulted at a number of firms including Mars, Deloitte, Google, Target, Apple, FedEx, Disney, Morgan Stanley, IBM, Wal-Mart, Amica, and Textron. He’s also presented at numerous government organizations including the FBI, NASA, Joint Special Operations Command, the Air War College, and West Point.

He received an A.B. with honors from Harvard College in 1991. He earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1995, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar. He also received his doctorate from Harvard Business School in 2000.

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:29 Failures

03:36 Strategic Decision Making

06:00 Three levels of decision making

06:54 Story of Alan Mulally

11:04 Decision quality and Implementation effectiveness

14:50 Consensus

16:38 Dialectical Inquiry and Devil's Advocacy

18:40 Different perspectives

20:02 Open atmosphere with transparency and lack of judgment

21:48 Dissenting view

24:28 Deciding how to decide

26:43 JFK’s Bay of pigs fiasco invasion and Cuban missile crisis

30:11 Compare and Contrast Bay of Pigs fiasco invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis

35:48 Key takeaway

37:53 Conclusion