Decision making has never been more critical for success in Business than today. Your immediate and future success can come down to one decision at any given time. So, how do you make the best business decisions? Is it through gut instinct based on years of experience and business acumen? Or, through careful analysis of past data to make reliable predictions of future outcomes?
Join two of the most respected thought leaders and best-selling authors as they debate the question in this lively, back-and-forth exchange as they attempt to settle the question once and for all.
We'll pit Malcolm Gladwell against Tom Davenport in a strict debate format and let them convince you that their perspective and persuasive abilities are superior.
Join us for this live debate from The 2009 Premier Business Leadership Series from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
About Malcolm Gladwell, Author; Tom Davenport, Author and Distinguished Professor, Babson College
Author Malcolm Gladwell has an incomparable gift for interpreting new ideas in the social sciences and making them understandable, practical and valuable to business and general audiences alike. In Gladwell's most recent book, Outliers: The Story of Success, he suggests an exciting new approach to helping people succeed by using the factors that really foster success. Outliers debuted as a No. 1 best-seller for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and Publisher’s Weekly.
Gladwell also is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.
Thomas H. Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and co-directs research for the Business Analytics research program at nGenera (formerly BSG Concours). He is the former director of research centers at Accenture, Ernst & Young, and McKinsey, and has taught at Harvard Business School, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and the University of Texas at Austin.
Davenport is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and other leading journals. His article "Competing on Analytics" was Harvard Business Review’s most requested article reprint of 2006. Davenport is the author or co-author of 12 books. Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning has become a best-seller and has been translated into 10 languages. His latest book, Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results, is due out later this year.
