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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

Graham T. Allison, Philip Zelikow

Why do governments make the choices they do, and how does the lens you use to explain a crisis like Cuba shape the answer you find?

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Author
Graham T. Allison, Philip Zelikow

Why read it

  • You will see how the lens you choose decides what you notice when you explain a big decision
  • You will stop assuming a government or company acts like one clear thinking person with one plan
  • You will learn how routines and rivalry inside an organisation can produce an outcome no single person planned

Who it is for

  • Managers who want to know why their company decided as it did
  • Students of politics and strategy learning to explain events
  • Anyone who asks why they did that and wants better tools

Contents

  1. Essence of Decision
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 Model I: The Rational Actor
  5. 2 The Cuban Missile Crisis: A First Cut
  6. 3 Model II: Organizational Behavior
  7. 4 The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Second Cut
  8. 5 Model III: Governmental Politics
  9. 6 The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Third Cut
  10. 7 Conclusion

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