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Podcast: The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving
Episode: 459: Professor of Finance at London Business School, Alex Edmans, on Facts, Data, and Evidence: Knowing What to Trust or Can We Really Trust Evidence?
Description: What if the greatest threat to smart decision-making isn't bad data, but how we interpret it?  In a world overflowing with information, even the most seasoned leaders and investors fall for myths dressed up as facts. Not because they're uninformed, but because they're human. In this episode, I sat down with Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School and author of May Contain Lies, a powerful new book about how stories, statistics, and studies exploit our biases — and what we can do about it. Alex draws on decades of res...