Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (693 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B009JU6UPG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 212 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Helpful Guide to Making Better Decisions Mike Mertens I highly recommend Decisive as a valuable aid to making more objective decisions. The Heath Brothers do a great job laying out a better and more memorable process for making decisions while illustrating the principles with a wide variety of examples. They begin by discussing how the normal decision making process proceeds in 4 steps, each of which has a "villain" that. "Another Keeper but a Tougher Read" according to Mike Cook. When I received news of a soon to be released third book by the brothers Heath I immediately jumped on the opportunity and as with the earlier two I am glad I did.Now, a word of caution to the reader, this book is a lot more dense than the other two and therefore takes more energy to read. However, I applaud the Heath's for continually tackling tough and complex topic. Not what I expected. The basic premise of the book is a good one and I think that the authors did a good job of framing it up. The details included in the book seem to be a collection of their favorite business stories and had little to do point they were raising. After reading a story I found myself asking 'what did that have to do with the point they were trying to raise?' Usually nothi
We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. We get distracted by short-term emotions. The real question is: How can we do better? In Decisive, the Heaths, based on an exhaustive study of the decision-making literature, introduce a four-step process designed to counteract these biases. Unfortunately, merely being aware of these shortcomings doesn’t fix the problem, any more than knowing that we are nearsighted helps us to see. When it comes to making choices, it seems, our brains are flawed instruments. Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions. Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. Written in an engaging and compulsively readable style, Decisive takes readers on an unforgettable journey, from a rock star’s ingenious decision-making trick to a CEO’s disastrous acquisition, to a single question that can often resolve thorny personal decisions. Along the way, we learn the answers to critical questions like these: How can we stop the cycle of agonizing over
Q&A with Chip Heath & Dan Heath