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DECISIVE: HOW TO MAKE BETTER CHOICES IN LIFE AND WORK by Chip and Dan Heath (New York, NY: Crown Business, 2013, 336 pages)


Picture this: You’re at your desk, trying to decide between two great options—or two not-so-great options. Or you’re driving home, second-guessing a choice you made at work or in your personal life. Brothers Chip and Dan Heath, having surveyed the research on decision-making psychology, move beyond why decisions are hard to how we can do better.


Chip Heath is a professor of organizational behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford Univer- sity. Dan Heath is a consultant at Duke Corporate Education, one of the world’s top providers of executive education. Te two best-selling authors introduce a four-step process designed to overcome an array of biases and irrationalities, such as overconfidence and the tendency to seek out information that supports us and downplay what doesn’t.


HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC SERVICE: PARADOXES, PROCESSES, AND PROBLEMS by Evan M. Berman, James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West and Montgomery R. Van Wart (Tousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2012, 552 pages)


Te fourth edition of this guide to managing in the public sector looks at the issues from both employee and manager perspectives. Now, more than ever, public service presents managers with unique legal and political challenges, as detailed by the authors, who are academics in the field of public administration. In this time of budget constraints, especially, this comprehensive guide offers practical solutions based on real public service experience.


THE ICARUS DECEPTION: HOW HIGH WILL YOU FLY? by Seth Godin (New York, NY: Portfolio Penguin, 2012, 256 pages)


We’re used to hearing about Icarus, who ignored his father’s warnings and flew straight at the sun, as a cau- tionary tale. Seth Godin, a best-selling author and the founder and CEO of the recommendation website Squidoo.com, suggests we reconsider. In today’s workplace, flying too low may be the greater danger, says the former vice president of marketing at Yahoo Inc. With creativity in short supply and high demand, Godin argues that the most successful people treat their work, whatever it may be, as a work of art.


A wealth of suggested reading titles is in GEN Odierno’s professional reading list, online at http://www.history.army. mil/html/books/105/105-1-1/index.html. Is there a book you’d like to recommend for this column? Send us an email at armyalt@gmail.com. Please include your name and daytime contact information.


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