Mind Behind the Move by Olga Kiendler

The book

Not every decision you make is truly yours.

Twelve chapters on the moment your mind commits, before you know you have chosen.

€19.99
  • Paperback and Kindle.
Order on Amazon

Methods utilised by professionals at

BASFBoehringer IngelheimP&GLondon Business SchoolMicrosoftHSBCJulius Baer

Intelligent leaders rarely fail from lack of strategy.

They fail because something shaped the decision long before strategy came into it. The wrong partner, the wrong hire, the deal that looked right on paper. The same patterns show up again and again, and they are very human.

What changes

From deciding by default to deciding on purpose.

01

Now

  1. The same misjudgement returns in a new shape
  2. Decisions feel right, then prove expensive
  3. You justify the call afterwards
02

After

  1. You name the pattern while it is still running
  2. You tell conviction apart from familiarity
  3. You catch it before it hardens

You start making the call on purpose.

Twelve chapters on the part of the decision you never see.

  1. IntroductionThe Move You Didn't Make
  2. 1The Subconscious Executive
  3. 2Decoding Your Decision DNA
  4. 3When Feelings Drive the C-Suite
  5. 4The Shortcut Trap
  6. 5Experience as (Sub)conscious Memory
  7. 6The Inner Architecture of Decision Making
  8. 7The Collective Code: Culture and the Tribal CEO
  9. 8The Hidden Cost of Running on Empty
  10. 9DECODE™: Your Strategic Decision Framework
  11. 10Rewiring the Executive Mind
  12. 11The Subconsciously Conscious Leader: Advantage in the Age of AI
Pages 22 and 23 of Mind Behind the Move showing The Three Layers of Decision DNA
Pages 22–23 · The Three Layers of Decision DNA®

Decision DNA® explains why you choose what you choose.DECODE™ shows how to choose differently.

Not every decision you make is truly yours. Some are echoes. Others are shadows. A few are whispers you never knew you heard.

MIND BEHIND THE MOVE · INTRODUCTION
Olga Kiendler holding a copy of Mind Behind the Move

From the author

I wrote this to save you twenty years.

After decades of negotiating high-stakes deals across industries and continents, one pattern became impossible to ignore. Something inside us chooses first, and reasoning arrives later to justify what is already moving.

Nobody teaches you how to read people, or how to notice when something is shifting. You usually learn it through decades of mistakes. I wrote this so you don't have to.

Olga Kiendler with Daniel Priestley
Daniel Priestley
Olga Kiendler with John Lee
John Lee
Olga Kiendler with Erich P. Cossutta
Erich P. Cossutta
Olga Kiendler with Sir Andrew Likierman
Sir Andrew Likierman
From the book
A deal that felt reckless at the time becomes a “calculated risk” in hindsight. A hire that raised red flags gets remembered as “the best decision I ever made” once the discomfort fades.
  • Before you make a move, something inside you already has.
  • Your decision patterns are as unique as your fingerprint.
  • The logical system often just finds reasons to justify what the emotional system has already decided.

Written for people whose decisions carry weight.

  • CEOs and founders
  • Owners and principals
  • Board members and investors
  • Surgeons, lawyers and consultants

This is a book about the person making the call, and about what is deciding for them before they know it.

A printed copy of Mind Behind the Move

Send me the book.

In paperback and on Kindle.

Order on Amazon

The book will give you the thinking. The actual work happens in person. Which decision ›