Winning takes many forms. For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a great sports book about leadership, judgement and decisionmaking rooted in the theory that helped Ed Smith lead England cricket to sustained success. And to help us all win more.An absolutely fascinating book THE GAME, The Times football podHow do you spot the opportunities that others miss?How do you turn a teams performance around?How do you make good decisions amid a tidal wave of information? And how can you improve?As chief selector for the England cricket team, Ed Smith pioneered new methods for building successful teams and watched his decisions tested in real time on the pitch. During his threeyear tenure, England averaged 7 wins in every 10 completed matches, better than they have performed before or since.Making Decisions reveals Smiths unique approach to finding success in a fastchanging and increasingly datareliant world. The best decisions, Smith argues, rely on a combination of differing kinds of intelligence from algorithms to intuition. This is a truth that the most successful people know data cannot account for everything, it must be harnessed with human insight. Whatever the power of data, humans arent finished yet.Sharing for the first time the tools he introduced as England selector, Smiths book captures the immediacy of life at the sharp end, while also exploring frameworks from the top levels of sports, business and the arts. Decisionmaking is revealed as a creative enterprise, not a...

Binding: Paperback;256 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: BGSA; Weight: 278 g; Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 17

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