Decision Making For Dummies

Decision Making For Dummies
Author: Dawna Jones
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118847539

Discover the best approaches for making business decisions Today's business leaders have to face the facts—you can't separate leadership from decision making. The importance of making decisions, no matter how big or small, cannot be overstated. Decision Making For Dummies is a candid resource that helps leaders understand the impact of their choices, not only on business, but also on their credibility and reputation. Designed for managers, business owners, and anyone else who makes tough decisions on a daily basis, this guide helps you figure out if the decisions you're making are the right ones. In addition to helping you explore how to evaluate your choices, Decision Making For Dummies covers ways to receive support for decision making, delves into various decision-making styles, reviews the importance of sifting through data and information, and includes information on ways to engage others and make decisions collectively. Being in charge can be challenging, but with this guide, you don't have to go it alone. Discusses the effects of decision making and outlines the considerations that must be made to gain trust and confidence Demonstrates ways to communicate particularly sensitive decisions, and offers approaches for making bold decisions that challenge the status quo Delves into the risks and benefits of certain decisions, and shows readers the best ways to evaluate choices Outlines smart strategies for engaging others and drawing them into the decision-making process Crucial decisions need to be made every day in the business world, so there's no time to waste. Make Decision Making For Dummies your primary resource for learning to choose your actions wisely and confidently.

The Secrets of Decision Making

The Secrets of Decision Making
Author: Kapil Bedi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre:
ISBN:

We make decisions throughout the day and in our lifespan we make thousands of decisions. Most of the decisions are routine barring few ones which have profound impact on our life. Gaining competence in decision making is highly desirable for personal and professional prosperity. The objective of writing this book is to provide an opportunity to gain the mastery in decision making. Decision making is both science and an art. When we talk of science we will systematically understand what constitutes to be a decision, how we have evolved as decision makers, how we deviate from rationality under the influence of cognitive biases, how we get emotional manipulated. We will learn these with the help of behavioral sciences - neurosciences, social science, neuroeconomics, cognitive psychology and group dynamics. Decision making is an art because we interpret the decisions subjectively. We have to learn and master this art of decision making so as to be an able, rational and ethical decision maker at individual levels, in groups and at organization level. In this highly engaging book, the author details decision making process, explains how to shield from cognitive biases, external manipulations and temptations, describes various tools and techniques required for decision making and throws light on drafting our own ethical code. The concepts are explained in details alongwith case studies and real life examples. It is an essential read for all individuals.

Today Matters

Today Matters
Author: John C. Maxwell
Publisher: Center Street
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2008-11-16
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1599952068

Most of us look at our days in the wrong way: We exaggerate yesterday. We overestimate tomorrow. We underestimate today. The truth is that the most important day you will ever experience is today. Today is the key to your success. Maxwell offers 12 decisions and disciplines-he calls it his daily dozen-that can be learned and mastered by any person to achieve success.

Risk Savvy

Risk Savvy
Author: Gerd Gigerenzer
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2014-04-17
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0141970111

A fascinating, practical guide to making better decisions with our money, health and personal lives from Gerd Gigerenzer, the author of Reckoning with Risk. Risk-taking is essential for innovation, fun, and the courage to face the uncertainties in life. Yet for many important decisions, we're often presented with statistics and probabilities that we don't really understand and we inevitably rely on experts in the relevant fields - policy makers, financial advisors, doctors - to analyse and choose for us. But what if they don't quite understand the way the information is presented either? How do we make sure we're asking doctors the right questions about proposed treatment? Is there a rule of thumb that could help choose the right partner? This entertaining book shows us how to recognize when we don't have all the information and know what to do about it. Gerd Gigerenzer looks at examples from every aspect of life to identify the reasons for our collective misunderstanding of the risks we face. He shows how we can all use simple rules to avoid being manipulated into unrealistic fears or hopes, to make better-informed decisions, and to learn to understand risk and uncertainty in our own lives. 'Gigerenzer is brilliant and his topic is fabulous' Steven Pinker 'Catchily optimistic and slyly funny' Guardian Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on heuristics and decision making, including Reckoning with Risk.

The Secret

The Secret
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-07-07
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0731815297

The tenth-anniversary edition of the book that changed lives in profound ways, now with a new foreword and afterword. In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe—The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller. Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life—money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life. The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers—men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

Proceedings of MAC-EMM 2014

Proceedings of MAC-EMM 2014
Author: Collective of authors
Publisher: MAC Prague consulting
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 8090544282

Conference proceedings - Multidisciplinary Academic Conference on Economics, Management and Marketing in Prague 2014 (MAC-EMM 2014)

Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
Author: Wess Roberts
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2007-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0446535494

Explains how the legendary military commander's principles of leadership can be applied to contemporary business situations in the '90s.

Judgment Misguided

Judgment Misguided
Author: Jonathan Baron
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1998
Genre: Policy sciences
ISBN: 0195111087

People often follow intuitive principles of decision making, ranging from group loyalty to the belief that nature is benign. But instead of using these principles as rules of thumb, we often treat them as absolutes and ignore the consequences of following them blindly. In Judgment Misguided, Jonathan Baron explores our well-meant and deeply felt personal intuitions about what is right and wrong, and how they affect the public domain. Baron argues that when these intuitions are valued in their own right, rather than as a means to another end, they often prevent us from achieving the results we want. Focusing on cases where our intuitive principles take over public decision making, the book examines some of our most common intuitions and the ways they can be misused. According to Baron, we can avoid these problems by paying more attention to the effects of our decisions. Written in a accessible style, the book is filled with compelling case studies, such as abortion, nuclear power, immigration, and the decline of the Atlantic fishery, among others, which illustrate a range of intuitions and how they impede the public's best interests. Judgment Misguided will be important reading for those involved in public decision making, and researchers and students in psychology and the social sciences, as well as everyone looking for insight into the decisions that affect us all.