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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the FactsBook

by Annie Duke

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Ken Norton
Executive coach for product leaders; previously a product partner at GV and a product manager at Google.
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A product manager will be called upon to make scores of decisions every day. In none of these cases will you have all of the information you want, and you’ll rarely be 100% confident. Poker champion turned decision researcher Annie Duke will help you learn how to be comfortable with uncertainty.

From “Best Books for Product Managers [2026]”, his standing list, introduced as “the 44 books I’d consider essential to any PM’s bookshelf”. Every book links through amzn.to and a Bookshop.org affiliate id (/a/83161/).

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