This book will help you deal with the hundreds of decisions you are faced with every day. It will show you how:

  • The mind processes information
  • Biological, physiological, and psychological factors influence thinking
  • To better prepare yourself to address probable influences on your decisions
  • To unleash the creative potential in your mind

This book distills what behavioral science has discovered related to how people, especially those in business, make decisions. Making Better Business Decisions will enable decision-makers to:

  • Recognize and focus on the truly important decisions that require critical thinking
  • Analyze options more clearly and creatively
  • Reduce decisional time and effort
  • Improve judgement quality

Awareness and application of the material contained within will enable us not only to improve our own decisions, but will also provide the means for us to understand how and why others decide as they do.

Applying rational decisional techniques or intuition can most likely solve our everyday routine, repetitive, and minor problems. As decisions become more important and problems become more difficult, the energy required by critical thinking skills and creative problem solving can improve the quality of our thought processes and increase the likelihood of uncovering optimal solutions.

 

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1. Introduction to Making Better Business Decisions I. INTERNAL INFLUENCES ON DECISION MAKING 2. Biological Factors Influencing Decisions 3. Why We Don′t Decide as We Should: The Influence of Want 4. Judgmental Biases Influencing Decisions 5. Perceptions of Risk and Decision Making II. UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS 6. Thinking Critically: How We Know What We Know III. UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING CREATIVITY 7. Thinking Creatively 8. Improving Our Decisions References About the Author
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780761924210
Publisert
2002-01-31
Utgiver
SAGE Publications Inc
Vekt
370 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
176

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