Successful Decision Making

Unlike other publications on decision making, the book focuses on discovering the problem, analyzing it and on developing and assessing solution options. One whole chapter describes a case study. It illustrates how the proposed decision making procedure is used in practice. Executives get an approach to systematically and successfully solving complex problems.

How many decisions do you think the average person makes in a day? How can these choices affect our lives, both positively and negatively? Author Waymond Rodgers illustrates four basic concepts of decision making in a single model that produces a limited number of possible courses of action. Process Thinking: Six Pathways to Successful Decision Making allows you to gauge which of the pathways is appropriate for a particular situation. This, in turn, can contribute an overall improvement in your happiness, relationships, finances, education, and employment. "Dr. Rodgers' breakthrough analysis of decision making should be mandatory reading for anyone managing people or negotiating transactions." -Hank Adler, C.P.A., accounting professor, Chapman University, and retired partner, Deloitte & Touche "I think your formulaic approach to decision making will make it much easier for people to make correct choices. Your approach forces decision makers to address the role their own subjective feelings (perceptions) have upon the process. It thereby makes the choice much more objective and rational." -Randall L. Erickson, J.D., partner in the California office of Crowell & Moring and chair of the firm's construction group

Few managers devote enough attention to the thinking processes they should apply to their jobs. Yet long, energetic hours at work are wasted if business decisions are not logical, clear – and correct. Effective Decision Making is the definitive guide to the crucial managerial skill of creative thinking. In this classic book John Adair, Britain’s foremost expert on leadership training, tells you everything you need to know to enable you to analyse your own thought processes, think outside the box and know when to turn to others to help you make your decisions. Including advice on every aspect of the decision-making process, Effective Decision Making will help you to: • Approach problems efficiently and effectively – define objective, collect information, develop options, evaluate, decide and implement • Think in a more imaginative way • Know when to rely on your intuition • Feel more confident about arguing your case • Develop your thinking skills With examples of good and poor decision making, as well as exercises designed to help you maintain and improve your mental fitness, Effective Decision Making will enable you to master one of the most important skills needed to make you an effective leader.

Making decisions is certainly the most important task of a manager and it is often a very difficult one. This book offers a decision making procedure for solving complex problems step by step. Unlike other texts, the book focuses on problem analysis, on developing solution options and on establishing the decision making matrix. The book is intended for decision makers in companies, in non-profit organisations and in public administration. It is an approach to helping them to solve complex problems successfully. The book is also addressed to students and to participants in executive courses.

Building on the success of the first four books in the series, New Holland is publishing a further four new titles. Successful Decision-Making shows the reader how to identify and evaluate all of his or her opinions, listen effectively to other's viewpoints, reach decisions that fulfil the brief and implement and follow them through to their conclusion. The Business Partners series offers clear, practical advice for career-minded people who wish to increase their potential and effectiveness and want to reach the next step in their profession. Packed with prompts, checklists and concise help, these easily portable books are highly accessible and informative, offering on-the-spot advice to help you progress in your career. Colourful and well designed, they are indispensable desktop companions, offering guidance for ever stage of a career -from attending your first interview to making decisions and mentoring others.

Learn how to: - to identify areas and set objectives that will show you where decisions need to be made; - create lists of options and alternatives that will maximise your chances of making the right decision; - narrow down your options, project outcomes and make final choices for success. Packed with prompts, checklists and concise help, these easily portable books are highly accessible and informative, offering on-the-spot advice to help you progress in your career. Colourful and well designed, they are indispensable desktop companions, offering guidance for every stage of a career