Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
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Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Steven Johnson
Riverhead Books, 2018, 320 Pages
Summary
This book is about the decisions we make that have long term consequences, sometimes with ramifications lasting hundreds of years. These are typically complex decisions with many different stakeholders. The author identifies the attributes of these sorts of decisions as well as some tools that might be considered as we make them. Long-term thinking, according the author, is something we must get better at doing.
