How to be a Better Decisionmaker

Good decisions are at the heart of good management.

This book will help you combine logic and intuition in your quest for more effective decision making. Containing numerous case studies and handy checklists, this easy-to-use guide shows you how to:

• Improve your decision thinking
• commit to decisions and gain others' commitment
• avoid being overwhelmed with information
• evaluate the outcomes of your decisions

Ideal for busy managers who increasingly have to make decision at very short notice, How to be a Better Decision Maker offers practical advice on arriving at the right decision, time after time.

1. What is a decision?
• Defining a decision
• Thinking about decisions
• Extending our choice
• Putting decisions in context
• Managing the decision making process
2. Considering
• The decision cycle
• Step 1: Identify the problem
• Step 2: Generate alternatives
• Step 3: Eliminate alternatives
3. Consulting
• Consult or participate?
• The dangers of consulting
• Whom to consult
• Consultation by conversation
• Appointing a consultative team
4. Committing
• Managing objective risk
• Managing emotional risk
5. Communicating
• Whom to communicate with?
• Selling the decision
• Delegation
• Sharing goals
6. Checking
• Monitoring performance
• Following people's progress
• Developing people

A really bad title, but an OK book.