The judgement Gap: IQ is overrated & Smart is Stupid

Intelligence is a tool. Judgment is the hand that wields it. And the gap between the two, what I call the ‘Judgment Gap’, is responsible for some of the most spectacular failures in modern history.

Brilliance was never the problem. The problem was something else entirely, a deficit in the quality of thinking applied to consequential choices. A deficit in judgment.

This book is an investigation into that deficit. It asks why intelligent people consistently make poor decisions, and more importantly, what any of us can do about it. The answers draw from behavioral economics, military decision science, cognitive psychology, and decades of research into corporate disasters, medical errors, and political catastrophes.