Read one of the following three books. Describe the author(s)’ main points in 1-2 double-spaced pages, and then describe in 5-6 double-spaced pages what lessons you can take from the book to apply to your personal life and to your organization. What I am really looking for here is something that speaks to an experience you have had and how you can reinterpret that in light of what the book has to say. I am not looking for things like: “In the future I can use data to inform my decsions at work.” I am looking for something more like: “I had an experience just like the one on page 37 of the book, and things went badly and if I had done what the book suggested I think things could have gone better.” For example, one student wrote about how the taco truck that he went to lunch for did thier pricing and he never noticed it before, but after reading the book realized they were nudging him to eat more tacos than he really needed or wanted.
i. Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
ii. Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know, New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2019. (I would recommend the audio book on this one)
iii. Maria Konnikova, The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win, New York, Penguin, 2020.
