Debias by Design is a systematic guide to the most frequent and impactful decision-making mistakes in management. It outlines why such errors come about and how to prevent or correct them. Debias by Design makes the extensive evidence on cognitive biases available to professionals in an accessible, entertaining, and visual format so that detrimental mental shortcuts can be more easily spotted and avoided in everyday decision-making. Besides a concise and visual guide to the most relevant biases, the book also presents simple debiasing tools, methods, and tricks to improve decision making systematically. Written by an experienced team of practitioners and academics, Debias by Design offers the following features: • A state-of-the-art survey on the most relevant and impactful cognitive biases from the point of view of experienced managers. • A highly visual and instructive guide to the most important cognitve biases. • The Decision TUNER approach to boost the quality of your decisions. • A toolbox on how to sytematically avoid bias as an individual, team, and organization. • A tutorial on how to spot your own bias blind spots. • An outloook on how to deal with biases in hybrid or Al- and analytics-assisted decision making. • A self-test to calibrate your own decision making and know your own bias weak spots. Debias by Design - so that you can design better decisions.

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Professor of Communications Management