#180 Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions feat. Zachary Shore

Can we teach leaders to become better strategic decision makers? Our guest Zachary Shore says we can. 

Part of the problem, he says is that people get stuck in rigid mindsets, which often involve the failure to take alternative perspectives. In his books “Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions,” and “sense of the enemy’ he aims to create a taxonomy of blunder causing mindsets and recount examples of effective strategic empathy through historical story telling. 

Zachary Shore is a historian of international conflict. He focuses on understanding the enemy. He is currently a professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School and Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. 

Greg and Zachary discuss types of empathy, pattern breaking moments, definition of a “blunder,” an analysis of Putin, and the importance of truly understanding our enemies.

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