About this episode

The episode explores how fear influences decision-making in corporate environments, featuring insights from Taras Wayner.

When I began studying the root causes of business failure early in my career, I believed that faulty cognitive limitations and weaknesses were the primary drivers of poor decisions, ultimately leading to business failure. Taras Wayner is the producer and host of a new podcast called A Case Study in Corporate Fear, where he addresses one of the central emotions in the affective mindset: fear. During this conversation, we learned how fear impacted the decision makers at Yahoo!, Atari, and...

People in this episode

Host: Mark Gandy

Guest: Taras Wayner

Topics covered

• business failure
• decision making
• corporate fear
• emotions in business
• case studies

Keywords

• business failure
• decision making
• corporate fear
• Yahoo
• Atari

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yahoo!, Atari

Books & works: A Case Study in Corporate Fear

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