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Author | : Craig Freshley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2010-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780978865726 |
A collection of 100 one-page tips for making thoughtful, equitable, lasting group decisions for our communities, organizations, governments, families, and our planet. Each tip is a provocative meditation and the book as a whole is a complete toolkit. The book is based on Caroline Estes' simple premise that "We each have a piece of the truth and we make our best decisions when we put all our pieces together." Freshley is a Quaker and while this book is not spiritually rooted, much of it is inspired by the Quaker idea of consensus. -- Publisher's description.
Author | : Craig Freshley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2010-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780978865733 |
The Wisdom of Group Decisions is a collection of 100 one-page tips for avoiding conflict and making thoughtful, lasting group decisions for our communities, organizations, governments, families, and our planet. Each tip is a provocative meditation and the book as a whole is a complete toolkit. The book is based on Caroline Estes' simple premise that "We each have a piece of the truth and we make our best decisions when we put all our pieces together." This book will help readers: . Improve group efficiency and productivity . Solve group problems in new creative ways . Enjoy efficient, productive meetings and processes . Handle disagreements . Include all voices . Build trust and respect . Explore spiritual principles and grow. Introductory chapters and an extensive, high quality index make the book a useful reference guide. Author Craig Freshley draws upon his many years of work planning and facilitating hundreds of meetings for nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and companies.
Author | : James Surowiecki |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2005-08-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0307275051 |
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world.
Author | : Mary Benet McKinney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Church management |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Benet McKinney |
Publisher | : Thomas More Association |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780895054494 |
For any person in a parish who must participate in some form of group decision making. It shows that a faith-filled approach to group work can help bring about a sense of church for everyone in parish ministry.
Author | : Joachim I. Krueger |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2012-05-04 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1136988580 |
This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology of judgment and decision-making in social contexts. The chapters of the first section address the basic psychological processes underlying judgment and decision-making. The guiding question is "What information comes to mind and how is it transformed?" The second section poses the question of how social judgments and decisions are to be evaluated. The chapters in this section present new quantitative models that help separate various forms of accuracy and bias. The third section shows how judgments and decisions are shaped by ecological constraints. These chapters show how many seemingly complex configurations of social information are tractable by relatively simple statistical heuristics. The fourth section explores the relevance of research on judgment and decision making for specific tasks of personal or social relevance. These chapters explore how individuals can efficiently select mates, form and maintain friendship alliances, judiciously integrate their attitudes with those of a group, and help shape policies that are rational and morally sound. The book is intended as an essential resource for senior undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and practitioners.
Author | : Thomas H. Davenport |
Publisher | : Harvard Business Review Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 142215811X |
Your guide to making better decisions Despite the dizzying amount of data at our disposal today—and an increasing reliance on analytics to make the majority of our decisions—many of our most critical choices still come down to human judgment. This fact is fundamental to organizations whose leaders must often make crucial decisions: to do this they need the best available insights. In Judgment Calls, authors Tom Davenport and Brook Manville share twelve stories of organizations that have successfully tapped their data assets, diverse perspectives, and deep knowledge to build an organizational decision-making capability—a competence they say can make the difference between success and failure. This book introduces a model that taps the collective judgment of an organization so that the right decisions are made, and the entire organization profits. Through the stories in Judgment Calls, the authors—both of them seasoned management thinkers and advisers—make the case for the wisdom of organizations and suggest ways to use it to best advantage. Each chapter tells a unique story of one dilemma and its ultimate resolution, bringing into high relief one key to the power of collective judgment. Individually, these stories inspire and instruct; together, they form a model for building an organizational capacity for broadly based, knowledge-intensive decision making. You’ve read The Wisdom of Crowds and Competing on Analytics. Now read Judgment Calls. You, and your organization, will make better decisions.
Author | : Cass R. Sunstein |
Publisher | : Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1422122999 |
"We've all been involved in group decisions--and they're hard. And they often turn out badly. Why? Many blame bad decisions on 'groupthink' without a clear idea of what that term really means. Now, Nudge coauthor Cass Sunstein and leading decision-making scholar Reid Hastie shed light on the specifics of why and how group decisions go wrong--and offer tactics and lessons to help leaders avoid the pitfalls and reach better outcomes"--Dust jacket flap.
Author | : Joe Nocera |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1476744890 |
Now with a new introduction describing the fallout of America’s consumer credit boom, 1994’s wildly acclaimed bestseller A Piece of the Action tells the story of how millions of middle class Americans went from being savers to borrowers and investors through the invention of credit cards, mutual funds, and IRAs—resulting in profound societal change. “America began to change on a mid-September day in 1958, when the Bank of America dropped its first 60,000 credit cards on the unassuming city of Fresno, California.” So begins Joe Nocera’s riveting account of one of the most astonishing revolutions in modern American life—what Nocera labels “the money revolution.” In the decades since, the middle class has gained access to credit cards, to mutual funds, to retirement accounts—and to hundreds of other financial vehicles that have allowed everyone to get “a piece of the action.” In this lively, engaging book, some of the great financial characters of modern times—from Charles Merrill to Charles Schwab to Peter Lynch—strut across the stage as the course of this great financial shift is charted. In an all-new introduction, Nocera takes a look back at the consequences of the money revolution. Were members of the middle class as prepared as the innovators claimed to take control of their financial lives? Or did events like the dot-com and the housing bubbles suggest something else: that far too many of us lacked the wherewithal to make sound investment decisions?
Author | : Barry Schwartz |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1594485437 |
A reasoned and urgent call to embrace and protect the essential human quality that has been drummed out of our lives: wisdom. In their provocative new book, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe explore the insights essential to leading satisfying lives. Encouraging individuals to focus on their own personal intelligence and integrity rather than simply navigating the rules and incentives established by others, Practical Wisdom outlines how to identify and cultivate our own innate wisdom in our daily lives.