Dinner Table MBA - by Nadia Ravn (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Teenagers will soon make life-shaping choices, yet most of their practice in decision making comes from being told what to do. Dinner Table MBA offers a different path: a practical family conversation guide that turns ordinary meals into an apprenticeship in judgment. Drawing on real-life caselets rather than lectures, it equips you with ready-to-use dinner table questions that teens actually want to answer. Each chapter gives you a concrete tool: weekly case prompts, ways to explore incentives and sunk cost fallacy, simple negotiation role plays, news debriefs, moral dilemmas, and post-mortems on choices that went well or badly. You will learn how to listen, probe, and disagree without drama, and how to help your young person spot trade-offs, hidden incentives, and second-order effects. Reflection is built in through gentle reflection journal prompts that connect private thinking with shared discussion. Written for parents, carers, and educators, this is not a script for perfect parenting or a crash course in business jargon. It is a set of flexible, human tools for building teen critical thinking and calmer conversations about the messy realities of modern life. If you want to practise thoughtful decision making for teens before university offers, jobs, and relationships raise the stakes, Dinner Table MBA gives you everything you need to begin - one case, one question, one evening at a time.