5 Insights from Poker to Improve Startup Decision Making w/ Annie Duke

In this episode with Annie Duke, with a particular focus on these challenging times, we’ll cover:

- How to identify cognitive biases that hurt decision-making
- The difference between confirmatory and exploratory thought
- How to embrace uncertainty
- The importance of building a diverse set of advisors
- How to distinguish between signal and noise when assessing outcomes

Join us live to participate in the discussion and ask your questions.

About Annie Duke: Annie is an author, corporate speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space. In 2018 Annie’s first book for general audiences, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, quickly became a national bestseller. As a former professional poker player, she has won more than $4 million in tournament poker. During her career, Annie won a World Series of Poker bracelet and is the only woman to have won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship. She retired from the game in 2012. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Annie is the co-founder of The Alliance for Decision Education, a non-profit whose mission is to improve lives by empowering students through decision skills education. She is also a member of the National Board of After-School All-Stars and the Board of Directors of the Franklin Institute. In 2020, Annie joined the board of the Renew Democracy Initiative.

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the quality of discussion versus the traction this video is *not* getting is befuddling. one of the best discussions on decision making i've ever seen. so refreshing after all that stuff out there with empty advice and platitudes. thank you for the great content!