Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath
Decisive provides a practical toolkit for making worthwhile choices.
The book identifies prejudices and incorrect beliefs that often prevent good judgment, and lays down a framework for overcoming these influences and making better choices.
The pages are full of simple strategies and tips for narrowing down choices, challenging impulses, considerin.
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions by Harvard Business Review
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions is one of the best business decision making books.
This anthology draws on past publications from Harvard Business Review to break down the science of making savvy business decisions.
Essays include “The Hidden Traps in Decision Making,” “Conquering a Culture of Indecision,” and “Why Good Leaders Make B.
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
The Paradox of Choice explores the effects of having plentiful options.
The book explains that while some choices can lead to better quality of life, having too many choices decreases happiness, increases anxiety, and often leads to decision-making fatigue and decision paralysis.
Barry Schwartz aims to find the tipping point that defines “too many .
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Thinking, Fast and Slow is one of the best decision making books of all time.
In this work, psychologist and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman explores the two main systems of thinking that guide human judgement: the quick emotional response and the slower, more logical process.
Kahneman outlines the nuances and appropriate uses for each system an.
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“Yes” Or “No”: The Guide to Better Decisions by Spencer Johnson
“Yes” or “No” presents a system for decision making.
The book helps readers separate emotional arguments from logical arguments and come to conclusions that satisfy both sides.
Through the use of simple questions, this framework helps individuals avoid overcomplicating elements and distractions and identify choices that align with belief systems, p.
Organization
The European Association for Decision Making, or EADM, is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the academic study of theories of decision making.
The organization is an outgrowth of a series of biannual conferences held in Europe between 1969 and 1993, when the Association was officially organized.
Decision-making model
Recognition-primed decision (RPD) is a model of how people make quick, effective decisions when faced with complex situations.
In this model, the decision maker is assumed to generate a possible course of action, compare it to the constraints imposed by the situation, and select the first course of action that is not rejected.
RPD has been described in diverse groups including trauma nurses, fireground commanders, chess players, and stock market traders.
It functions well in conditions of time pressure, and in which information is partial and goals poorly defined.
The limitations of RPD include the need for extensive experience among decision-makers and the problem of the failure of recognition and modeling in unusual or misidentified circumstances.
It appears, as discussed by Gary A.
Klein in Sources of Power, to be a valid model for how human decision-makers make decisions.
