The Head Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems Quickly

Book review by Deane Barker tags: analysis, spies
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Interesting book written by a former CIA deputy director.

It recounts the analysis of many problems in the intelligence world and dissects things like: how do we determine the correct question, how do we understand the correct drivers, how do we synthesize all the data, etc?

It presents a six-step checklist to make better decisions amidst a complicated decision framework.

It helps if you’re really interested in intelligence, which I am. Some of the discussions about the Indian nuclear test and the Iraq WMD problem get pretty deep and tedious.

Immediately after reading the chapter on forming the correct question, I applied it to a professional problem I was wrestling with, and subsequently came at it from an entirely different and constructive direction. So, it was worth reading for that alone.

Book Info

Author
Philip Mudd
Year
Pages
288
Acquired
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