The HEAD Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems Quickly

A leading government analyst and secret intelligence commentator distills his decision-making expertise into this groundbreaking approach to problem solving.

Adapting the geopolitical and historical lessons gleaned from over two decades in government intelligence, Philip Mudd, an ex–National Security Council staff member and one-time senior executive at the FBI and the CIA, has created what promises to be a necessary guidebook in how we approach complex and high-stakes decisions. Filled with logical yet counterintuitive answers to both ordinary and extraordinary problems—whether it be buying a new home, deciding which college to attend, or how to pivot a failing business model—Mudd’s “HEAD” (High Efficiency Analytic Decision Making) methodology exposes the inherent dangers of searching for a quick solution and why it is so vital, but not necessarily obvious or easy, to ask the right questions first. It is a revolutionary and business-friendly new technique, one that, in the best-selling tradition of Charles Duhigg’s Power of Habit and Oren Klaff ’s Pitch Anything, has the potential to change the way we both live and work.