Decision Traps: Ten Barriers to Brilliant Decision-making and how to Overcome Them"Executives rate decision-making ability as the most important business skill, but few people have the training they need to make good decisions consistently. Becoming a good decision-maker is like training to be a top athlete: Just as the best coaches use training methods to help athletes develop proper techniques and avoid mistakes, Dr. J. Edward Russo and Dr. Paul J.H. Schoemaker have developed a program that can help you avoid 'decision traps' - the ten common decision-making errors that most people make over and over again. Dr. Russo and Dr. Schoemaker have improved the decision-making skills of thousands of Fortune 500 executives with this program. Now you can use their decision-making techniques to make sure that you last bad decision was your last bad decision." -- back cover. |
Contents
An Excellent DecisionMaking | 1 |
The Power of Frames | 15 |
Winning Frames | 37 |
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Decision Traps: Ten Barriers to Brilliant Decision-making and how to ... J. Edward Russo,Paul J. H. Schoemaker No preview available - 1989 |
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