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Decide and Conquer: The Ultimate Guide for Improving Your Decision Making

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Make better decisions – every day, everywhere! Decide and Conquer, Second Editionbrings together all the practical skills you need to do just that. This quick, concise book identifies every key obstacle to quality decision-making and shows exactly how to overcome them. You'll discover how your personality impacts your decision-making, why instincts and experience can lead you astray, how to simplify complex decisions without oversimplifying them and much more. Renowned management author Dr. Stephen P. Robbins translates cutting-edge research findings about human behavior and decision-making into language anyone can understand – and act upon. In this Second Edition, he provides many new and updated examples, updated research, and new coverage, including these crucial new topics: Are you a Maximizer or a Satisficer – and what it means for your decision-making Overcoming the familiarity bias, adaptation bias, and fear-of-loss bias How to stop throwing good money after bad Knowing when doing nothing is your best option Accounting for gendered decision-making styles Decide and Conquer, Second Editioncovers everything from goal-setting and risk-taking to overconfidence to procrastination, and offers indispensable insights for overcoming the multiple biases that are built into all human decision-makers. You'll use Robbins' powerful techniques to improve every decision you make – about your relationships, career, finances, everything!

Table of Contents:
Part I:  Introduction   1 Chapter 1: Decision Making Shapes Your Life   3 Chapter 2: The Search for Rationality   7 Chapter 3: Why It’s Hard to Be Rational   11   Part II:  How Do You Make Decisions?   17 Chapter 4: What’s Your Decision Style?   19 Chapter 5: Are You a Risk-Taker?   23 Chapter 6: Are You a Maximizer or Satisficer?   27 Chapter 7: Who Controls Your Destiny?   29 Chapter 8: Do You Procrastinate?   33 Chapter 9: Are You Impulsive?   35 Chapter 10: Can You Control Your Emotions?   39 Chapter 11: Are You Overconfident?   43 Chapter 12: Understanding Your Personality Profile   45   Part III:  Common Biases and Errors That Most of Us Make (and How to Overcome Them)   49 Chapter 13: How Can You Be So Darn Sure About That? Coping with Overconfidence   51 Chapter 14: Never Do Today That Which You Can Do Tomorrow: The Inertia Bias   55 Chapter 15: I Want It, and I Want It NOW! The Immediate Gratification Bias   59 Chapter 16: Where You End Up Depends on Where You Start: The Anchoring Effect   63 Chapter 17: I’ll See It When I Believe It: The Selective Perception Bias    67 Chapter 18: I Hear What I Want to Hear: The Confirmation Bias   71 Chapter 19: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? The Framing Bias   75 Chapter 20: What Have You Done for Me Lately? The Availability Bias   79 Chapter 21: Looks Can Be Deceiving: The Representation Bias   83 Chapter 22: Seeing Patterns That Aren’t There: Coping with Randomness   87 Chapter 23: I Only Like Change That Jingles in My Pocket: The Familiarity Bias   91 Chapter 24: Gone Is Not Always Forgotten: Understanding Sunk Costs   95 Chapter 25: Keep It Simple: The Limited Search Error   99 Chapter 26: Losing Your Head in the Heat of Battle: The Emotional Involvement Error   103 Chapter 27: Who You Gonna Blame? The Self-Serving Bias   107 Chapter 28: Novelty Wears Off: The Adaptation Bias 111 Chapter 29: I Knew It All the Time: The Hindsight Bias 115   Part IV:  Advice Your Mother Never Gave You 119 Chapter 30: Clear Goals and Preferences Make Choosing a Lot Easier   121 Chapter 31: Sometimes Doing Nothing Is Your Best Option   125 Chapter 32: Choosing Not to Decide Is Still a Decision   129 Chapter 33: Decisions Are Not Made in Isolation   133 Chapter 34: All Decisions Aren’t Important   137 Chapter 35: More Information Isn’t Necessarily Better   141 Chapter 36: You Can Have Too Much of a Good Thing   145 Chapter 37: Don’t Rehash Past Decisions   149 Chapter 38: Successful People Take Risks   153 Chapter 39: It’s Okay to Make Mistakes, or No One Has an Undefeated Season   157 Chapter 40: Experience Can Improve Decisions, But   161 Chapter 41: Where You’re from Influences How You Decide   165   Part V:  An Epilogue   169 Chapter 42: Summary, or Why Ignorance Isn’t Bliss   171   Endnotes   177 Index   199


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780133966732
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson FT Press
  • Depth: 25
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Ultimate Guide for Improving Your Decision Making
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0133966739
  • Publisher Date: 30 Oct 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 2
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 290 gr


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