Making Better Business Decisions: Understanding and Improving Critical: Understanding and Improving Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills - Rilegato

Williams, Steve W.

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ISBN 10: 0761924213 ISBN 13: 9780761924210

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 2002

Riassunto

If you're serious about making better decisions in your business and your life, read this book and discover the hidden psychological, biological and physiological factors influencing the decisions you make.

Expert author Steve Williams shows how an awareness of these influences can improve the quality of the decision-making process and increase creativity and innovation.

Insightful and easy to read, "Making Better Business Decisions" will help you:

• Analyze options more clearly and creatively
• Reduce decision time
• Recognize and focus on priority decisions
• Understand why and how others make the decisions they do

 

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Product Description:

This book will help readers deal with the hundreds of decisions that are faced every day. It will demonstrate how: * The mind processes information * Biological, physiological, and psychological factors influence thinking * To better prepare yourself to address probable influences on your decisions * To unleash the creative potential in your mind This book outlines how people, especially those in business, make decisions . Making Better Business Decisions will enable decision-makers to: * Recognize and focus on the truly important decisions that require critical thinking * Analyze options more clearly and creatively * Reduce decisional time and effort * Improve judgement quality The awareness and application of the material contained in this book will enable professionals, academics and students not only to improve their own decisions, but will also provide the means to understand how and why decisions are made. This work will show how applying rational decisional techniques or intuition can solve repetitive and minor problems.This work breaks down critical thinking skills and creative problem solving techniques that can assist and help as decisions become more important and problems become more difficult in today's society and business environment. This book is a beneficial for professionals, academics and students in business and organizational behaviour.

Contenuti:

1. Introduction to Making Better Business Decisions
I. INTERNAL INFLUENCES ON DECISION MAKING
2. Biological Factors Influencing Decisions
3. Why We Don't Decide as We Should: The Influence of Want
4. Judgmental Biases Influencing Decisions
5. Perceptions of Risk and Decision Making
II. UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
6. Thinking Critically: How We Know What We Know
III. UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING CREATIVITY
7. Thinking Creatively
8. Improving Our Decisions
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• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0761924213
• ISBN 13: 9780761924210
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224