A timely look at the real costs of leaders not examining their
assumptions. Why do accomplished and stable leaders frequently make
calamitous decisions with devastating consequences for their
countries-and other nations? We debate debacles such as the
American involvement in Vietnam, seeking to understand why leaders
pursued disastrous policies. In Prisoners of Their Premises, George
C. Edwards III argues that the failure of leaders to examine their
premises-the assumptions they make about the world and situation
they are dealing with-cause them to ignore real problems or pursue
policies that, in costly ways, deal with problems that are
different than they think or simply don't exist. Edwards looks at
the role of premises in identifying (or ignoring) a problem in a
series of case studies that range from strategic decisions in World
War I and the Korean War to the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Too
often, unexamined premises color initial decisions to pursue a
policy and shape the strategies leaders employ to achieve their
goals, with grave consequences for their countries, organizations,
and potentially the world. Timely and important, Prisoners of Their
Premises demonstrates the real costs leaders incur by failing to
question their assumptions.
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