“Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How To Keep It From Happening To You”
Moderated by Sally Jackson
Thursday, November 19 at 6:30-8:00 pm
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University
(Boston, MA) Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University presents Sydney Finkelstein on “Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How To Keep It From Happening To You;” moderated by Sally Jackson. Thursday, November 19, at 6:30-8:00 pm. Followed by an open discussion. Admission is free and open to all.
C. Walsh Theatre, Suffolk University, 55 Temple Street, Boston, MA.
Wheelchair accessible and conveniently located near the Park Street MBTA station.
For more information, call the Ford Hall Forum at 617-557-2007 or visit www.fordhallforum.org.
History is full of brilliant leaders making incredibly poor choices. From President John F. Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs invasion to Wall Street’s heavy bets in the mortgage market, we see people with extraordinarily powerful cognitive abilities make terrible decisions. Why does this happen? Sydney Finkelstein, bestselling author and Steven Roth Professor of Management for the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, joins Sally Jackson, public relations consultant and founder of Jackson & Company, to addresses the specific ways our minds are lured into making misguided judgments, and why organizations so often fail to correct the mistake. Most importantly, he identifies the way wise leaders sidestep these pitfalls, and how you can do the same.
The Ford Hall Forum is the nation’s oldest continuously operating free public lecture series. The Forum promotes freedom of speech and fosters an informed and effective citizenry through the public presentation of lectures, debates, and discussions. Its events illuminate the key issues facing our society by bringing to its podium knowledgeable and thought-provoking speakers, including some of the most controversial opinion leaders of our times. These speakers are presented in person, for free, and in settings, which facilitate frank and open debate.
The Forum began in 1908 as a series of Sunday evening public meetings held at the Ford Hall, which once stood on Beacon Hill in Boston. While the original building no longer exists, the public conversations have continued throughout the Greater Boston area with the generous support of foundations, corporations, academic institutions, and individuals. As the Forum marks its 100th Anniversary, it is embarking on a new partnership with the Suffolk University College of Arts & Sciences. Suffolk is now housing the Forum’s administrative offices just a block away from where the original Ford Hall once stood.
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