{"product_id":"9781422122877","title":"Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them","description":"\u003cp\u003eEven the best-run companies can be blindsided by disasters they should have anticipated. These predictable surprises range from financial scandals to operational disruptions, from organizational upheavals to product failures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Predictable Surprises, Max Bazerman and Michael Watkins show you how to minimize your risk by understanding and lowering the psychological, organizational, and political barriers preventing you from foreseeing calamity. The authors also offer powerful tools-including incentives and formal coalitions-that business leaders can use to detect and fend off threats invisible to insiders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFailure to recognize what's coming exposes your company to predictable surprises. Given the stakes involved, this book allows you to focus on the right problems and to act before it is too late.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMax H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also formally affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard Psychology Department, and the Program on Negotiation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael D. Watkins is Professor of General Management at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, and confounder of Genesis Advisers, a leadership development company  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard Business Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054094434544,"sku":"9781422122877","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781422122877_p0.jpg?v=1763743481","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781422122877","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}