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11 Myths About Decision-Making
How to make better decisions: slow down and think twice, conduct a premortem, red-team your strategy, consider counterfactuals, minimize hindsight bias and creeping determinism, and consider a wider range of potential outcomes
Michael Mauboussin • Michael Mauboussin — How Great Investors Make Decisions, Harnessing The Wisdom (vs. Madness) of Crowds, Lessons from Race Horses, and More (#659) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
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I have been aiming to discuss taking action and being decisive in two essays because there seems to be a belief that 'rationality' and mental models are all you need to succeed. Most influential people make better decisions and use thinking tools that assist them in achieving their goals more quickly.
Cedric Chin • Decisiveness is Just as Important as Deliberation
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Most people believe that decision-making is a rational process of accumulating facts, applying logic, and coming out with some variation of the truth
Charles H. Green • The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Leading with Trust
This advice may sound familiar; it lies at the heart of books like Blink and Gary Klein’s The Power of Intuition, which promise to help readers harness their gut feelings. But for executives taught to methodically frame problems, consider alternatives, collect data, weigh the options, and then decide, cultivating emotional self-awareness may seem l... See more
Gardiner Morse • Decisions and Desire
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Considering what motivates the decisions of others, especially when those decisions affect you, is also essential. Incentives matter. Take a negotiation course, because skilled negotiators are masters at figuring out what is important to the other party and arriving at mutually beneficial solutions. Even if you are not dealing directly with another
... See moreMichael J. Mauboussin • Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
