Mental Models for Effective Managers

13 Short Stories That Help You Make Better Decisions and Lead With Confidence

By: Hassan Osman

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 34 mins

Publisher's summary

A super-short book that shows you how to think better through powerful management anecdotes

You'll learn:

• How to delegate tasks the right way
• Why you should start with the big picture
• How to classify problems
• How to avoid common biases
• Why you should give clear directions
• How to think like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

And much more...

Here's what's covered in the book:

1. Start with a 7-Word Life Motto
2. Avoid Brown M&Ms
3. Delegate Like a Trauma Surgeon
4. Solve for Climate vs. Weather Problems
5. Leverage Musk's Employee Vector Theory
6. Make One-Way Door Decisions for Chernobyl-Type Risks
7. Use Guide Dog Selective Disobedience
8. Avoid WWII Plane Survivorship Bias
9. Motivate Using the Kissinger Way
10. Avoid Being One of the 5 Monkeys
11. Give Sun Tzu Type Directions
12. Mitigate D-Day's Cliff-Climbing Error
13. Use Stories to Sell Olives

Each mental model gives you a new way of thinking about how you communicate, manage, and lead.

Unlike specific management techniques or tactics, those models can be mixed and matched.

You can use all of them. Or none of them. Or you can take one and modify it to your liking.

Think of those models as heuristics instead of rules of law.

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