Good Judgment: Making Better Business Decisions with the Science of Human Personality

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An experienced organizational psychologist teaches you how to select the right employees and business partners, assess investment opportunities more shrewdly, resolve conflicts better and faster, and optimize your performance on the job using the science of personality.

Psychologists widely agree that five key traits define our personalitiesintellect, emotionality, sociability, drive, and diligence. Unlike emotions, which are transitory in nature, these traits determine our behaviors, including our motivations, social inclinations, reactions to crisis or complexity, patterns of thinking, and more.

Organizational psychologist Dr. Richard Davis is an expert in assessing personalities. He has spent decades advising business leaders and evaluating executives from some of the worlds biggest companies, including Amazon, Target, Best Buy, Under Armour, Meta, Starbucks, Nike, LVMH, and the NBA. Over the course of his career, he has helped numerous executives make tough, highly consequential hiring calls based on personality. A companys board might want its next CEO to be decisive, focused, and a strong communicator. Investors backing a start-up might want a leader who is not only a visionary but also a team player who doesnt retaliate when given constructive feedback. Thats where he comes in. As a result of his lifes work, Dr. Davis has developed not only a unique perspective on what human personality is, but an indispensable toolkit for analyzing it, and using the information effectively.

In Good Judgment, he brings his expertise to you. Dr. Davis explains what the science of personality is and how it works, and how all of us can use it to improve our working relationships, careers, and lives. Whether youre a novice manager looking to hire your first assistant, a board member in need of the ideal CEO, an angel investor trying to choose between two different startups, or a new parent selecting a pediatrician, understanding the science of personality and how to utilize it is the key to exercising good judgmentat work and in life.

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Through engaging, real-world examples, Richard Davis offers expert and seasoned advice on how to become a successful leader, including some very specific tips and strategies on how to be the most effective version of yourself.His proven insights will be helpful for anyonein any industrylooking to elevate their game. Adam Silver, NBA Commissioner Good Judgmentis an instantly engaging, well-written and important book about the value of having insight into others. Richard Davis articulates why it matters, the science behind it, and how to actually develop it. Read this book if you want to make good decisions about people. Amy C. Edmondson, Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School; Author ofRight Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well "This excellent book gives you an insiders view of some of the skills psychologists use to have good judgment about people.Good Judgmentis filled with valuable tools to gain insight into the unique personalities of people and help you make better decisions as a resultat work and well beyond!" Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, Author ofTranscendand Host ofThe Psychology Podcast No CEO will succeed without the right team around them. InGood Judgment, Richard provides leaders with additional tools to better understand the people they hire, develop, and work with. A provocative and practical blueprint for how to look inside the minds of others to forge meaningful, trusted, and long-lasting relationships. Constantine Alexandrakis, President and CEO, Russell Reynolds Associates "A critical book that will forever change your understanding of leaders and their social skills. Richard Davis has done a brilliant job bringing the theory to practice, to clearly illustrate the critical value of good judgment in leaders" Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, PhD, Professor of Business Psychology at Columbia University and Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup "Good Judgmentis an invaluable resource for leaders, as well as those who coach and support them. Clear-eyed and insightful, it creates a mechanism for understanding what makes people tick and, more importantly, how they might work better.If you lead people, or even if you work with them, you need to read this book." Jerry Colonna, author ofReunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong

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Richard Davis was born and educated in Melbourne and now lives in Queensland. He was encouraged in his writing by Alan Marshall, Ivan Southall and later, Nobel prize-winning author Patrick White. Richard pursued a successful career in commerce before taking up full-time writing in 1997. Since then his published works have included three internationally acclaimed biographies of musicians: Geoffrey Parsons - Among Friends (ABC Books), Eileen Joyce: A Portrait (Fremantle Press) and Anna Bishop - The Adventures of an Intrepid Prima Donna (Currency Press). The latest in this series is Wotans Daughter - The Life of Marjorie Lawrence.