Subject: Decision making (Keywords)

The nonfinancial managers guide to better and faster business decisions. Forget the idea that financial management is complicated. This book shows you how to make financially sound business decisions using just four numbers - and fast.

Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. In this new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenti...

The chapters in this book cover citizen competence and democratic decision making, data and methods, the preference/policy link, policy domains and democratic responsiveness, interest groups and democratic responsiveness, and much more.

From the moment we are conceived to the day we die, our thoughts, actions, moods and decisions are shaped and manipulated by a whole array of factors, most of which we don't pay any attention to. And these influences and impulses that guide us are inescapable; from culture and language, to the fo...

From the moment we are conceived to the day we die, our thoughts, actions, moods and decisions are shaped and manipulated by a whole array of factors, most of which we don't pay any attention to. And these influences and impulses that guide us are inescapable; from culture and language, to the fo...

The training to become a fighter pilot is among the most competitive and difficult in the world with less than one-in-a-thousand succeeding. Pushing a cutting-edge jet to its limits at over 1,000 mph means that every split-second decision can have catastrophic consequences. At the cockpit of the ...

Drawing from different 'fields' such as philosophy, psychology, literature, and theology, Joseph Bikart uses decades of experience as a business coach for senior executives around the globe to explore how and why we make the decisions we do.

Drawing from different 'fields' such as philosophy, psychology, literature, and theology, Joseph Bikart uses decades of experience as a business coach for senior executives around the globe to explore how and why we make the decisions we do.

The success of any organisation or individual depends upon making good decisions, arrived at through the use of a sound judgment. Too often, this elusive characteristic has been misperceived as an unchangeable, entrenched element of our character, over which we have little control. In fact, judgm...

Since antiquity, i.e. for at least 2,500 years and probably much longer, people have been asking themselves what it means to live a good life. Each generation poses this question anew, and somehow the answers are always fundamentally disappointing. Why? Because we're constantly searching for a si...