Fascinating Article on Bad Decision-Making by the Israeli Defense Force

Check-out this insightful article that we posted over at our website Evidence-Based Management. As Jeff Pfeffer puts it so well:

"We have just posted an amazing article by an Israeli professor that has
some fascinating material on how things went so wrong for the Israeli army in
its recent struggles in Lebanon. The article highlights the importance of
assumptions, mental models, and mind sets as crucial to making better and
better informed decisions."

The article is by Raanan Lipshitz and here is the abstract: 

"This paper argues that the
Israel Defense Force (I.D.F.) failure in the second Lebanon war can be partly
attributed to commanders mindless and insufficiently critical decision making
processes at the individual, group and organizational levels, or the platoon/tactical,
division/operational and GHQ/strategic levels. Four cases are analyzed. The
first three cases confirm the proposition during planning and opening stages of
the war. The fourth case tests confirms its validity during the war’s second,
ground campaign phase. The paper presents an inclusive psychological
conceptualization of decision making that is radically different from the
calculative conceptualization that underlies mainstream decision research. The
descriptive and prescriptive implications of the paper’s findings and the model
that it presents generalize beyond the second Lebanon War and Military Decision
Making to decision making in business and the conduct of decision research."