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  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Judgement and organisational failure

Management and Organisational Design

Studies of how executives and organisations misjudge, from groupthink and the halo effect to metric fixation and corporate moral codes.

Books 15Experts 2Recommenders 16

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  1. GroupthinkIrving L. Janis, 1972
  2. The Silo EffectGillian Tett, 2015
  3. The Tyranny of MetricsJerry Z. Muller, 2018
  4. Judgment in Managerial Decision MakingMax H. Bazerman, 1986
  5. Moral MazesRobert Jackall, 1988
GroupthinkGroupthink
T1 Groupthink
Irving L. Janis · 1972
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the wish for agreement in close groups led to fiascos like the Bay of Pigs.

“One of my favourite books, Groupthink by Irving Janis, breaks down how small, cohesive groups of very smart people can make very bad decisions.” — Adam Weiss

Source: Weiss naming Groupthink one of his favourite books

Recommended by: Adam Weiss, Barton Biggs

The Silo EffectThe Silo Effect
T2 The Silo Effect
Gillian Tett · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the way organisations divide work blinds them, and how some break down silos.

“Gillian Tett's new book the Silo Effect, a thoughtful discussion of the downside of narrow specialisation.” — Seth Klarman

Source: Klarman on Gillian Tett on the downside of specialisation

Recommended by: Seth Klarman

The Tyranny of MetricsThe Tyranny of Metrics
T2 The Tyranny of Metrics
Jerry Z. Muller · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

How fixation on measured performance damages the work it is meant to improve.

Judgment in Managerial Decision MakingJudgment in Managerial Decision Making
T4 Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
Max H. Bazerman · 1986
Open LibraryGoodreads

The biases that distort managers' decisions, with exercises that show them.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Charlie Munger and 1 other

Moral MazesMoral Mazes
T4 Moral Mazes
Robert Jackall · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The IrratiSearching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
T4 Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
Rakesh Khurana · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair GameMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
T4 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the Oakland A's won on a small payroll by buying players the market undervalued.

“understanding how to buy undervalued players is very similar to buying undervalued stocks and so that's a really helpful book” — Joel Greenblatt

Source: Masters in Business transcript: Joel Greenblatt (2018)

Recommended by: Joel Greenblatt, Mohnish Pabrai, Ev Williams and 2 others

Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
T4 Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
Sydney Finkelstein · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to WorkSnakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
T4 Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
Paul Babiak · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Halo EffectThe Halo Effect
T4 The Halo Effect
Phil Rosenzweig · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

How judging firms by their results corrupts most business research and advice.

“Phil Rosenzweig's must-read book, The Halo Effect, shows this idea is alive and well in the business world.” — Michael Mauboussin

Source: Was Harry Potter Inevitable? Cumulative Advantage, Counterfactuals, and the Halo Effect (Legg Mason)

Recommended by: Michael Mauboussin, Ev Williams and 1 other

The Ten Commandments for Business FailureThe Ten Commandments for Business Failure
T4 The Ten Commandments for Business Failure
Donald R. Keough · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Warren Buffett

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with FailurAdapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
T4 Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Tim Harford · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Complex problems yield to trial and error, not expert plans, and how to run it.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick O'Shaughnessy

The Road Less StupidThe Road Less Stupid
T4 The Road Less Stupid
Keith J. Cunningham · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Ran Segall

The Unaccountability MachineThe Unaccountability Machine
T4 The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies · 2024
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

The Gervais Principle
T4 The Gervais Principle
Venkatesh Rao
Goodreads

Recommended by: Nat Eliason

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