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- Mastering the Art of Effective Decision Making
- Two managers can be equally knowledgeable, yet one may be wildly successful while the other mediocre at best. What's the difference? The ability to make wise decisions. Here you'll find five articles on the strategies you need to master this essential management skill. Are You a Good...
- Articles 2008-01-11
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- The Decisions You Shouldn't Rush
- There are two types of decisions. The first type can be called 'everyday decisions'. They rely on a manager's experience and expertise and account for the majority of decisions made each day. The second type can be called 'one-off decisions'. These are decisions...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Be More Effective -- By Making Fewer Decisions
- Do you find that you are continually making business decisions, yet struggle to make significant progress on key issues? The job of managers is to make decisions and manage the related actions that improve the effectiveness of your organisation. But you can find yourself trying to sort...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions
- Bad business decisions rarely attract the attention they are getting this week, as four UK bank bosses face the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee to explain how they arrived at decisions that nearly ruined the banks they were heading up. Among...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Four Red Flags to Avoid Bad Decisions
- The Find: Minimize the frequency with which you make bad decisions by keeping a look out for four red flags that indicate your underlying thinking about the problem may be faulty. The Source: A write-up of a new book entitled Think Again â€" Why Good Leaders Make...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Market Entry Decisions In An Experimental Game Setting
- Combining perspectives from population ecology and strategy research, this paper examines the effects of legitimation, heterogeneity among players, and uncertain capacity on market entry decisions in an experimental game setting. It find that heterogeneity and uncertain capacity did little to impair the high levels of coordination between aggregate entry...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Change Management: Making Conscious Decisions
- Leaders make two types of decisions. They are either conscious decisions or unconscious decisions. The former are traits of true leaders the latter are traits of phoney leaders. Conscious decisions are made with the data at hand the risks understood and the implications of the risk known with possible contingencies...
- White papers 2006-10-02
- Who's Afraid of a Poor Old-Age?: Risk Perception in Risk Management Decisions
- Retirement planning and voluntary as well as mandated contributions to pension plans require a series of decisions under uncertainty. Those range from initial decisions about the magnitude of contributions and allocation across different investment options and choice of option providers, to periodic reviews of these decisions in light of possible...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Ethical Decisions: For Leadership Only?
- Ethical Decisions: For Leadership Only?Ethical Decisions: For Leadership Only?Unfortunately we have developed a generation of employees and future managers not leaders by telling them what to think education and processesrather than including how to think (rational, ethical, decision making processs). I do not want to stifle thought and initiative, we...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- How Are the Best Decisions Made?
- According to many management experts, including a great number represented in our own BNET business library, when you need to make an important decision, a dispassionate consideration of the likelihood of various outcomes and their probable costs and benefits is the best way to go. If this...
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- How Managers' Everyday Decisions Create—or Destroy—Your Company's Strategy
- The Idea in Brief Top leaders' formal strategies determine how business gets done in your firm—right? Wrong, say authors Joseph Bower and Clark Gilbert: It's other ...
- Articles 2007-11-07
- Optimizing Project Plan Decisions
- From the executive summary: ‘Managers often face decision problems where the choices are more complex than simply yes or no. There are numerous decisions in project management. Decision analysis provides a more realistic and more accurate representation of project. As such, project manager has better information for making decisions under...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Why Making the Decisions the Right Way Is More Important Than Making the Right Decisions
- Many managers disdain "Process" - organizations that put a premium on "The way things have always been done around here" over those that champion bold and rapid decision making. Ironically, as this author states, making the right decision is less important than focusing on how the decision is made -...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Advantages And Disadvantages Of Group Decisions
- Decision making is tricky business, especially when it comes to large groups. This paper goes with advantages and disadvantages of group decisions... There are several instances in professional as well as personal life when decision-making requires opinions and inputs from more than one or two people. This is where group...
- White papers 2008-04-23
- 9 Secrets To Making Laser-Accurate Financial Decisions
- Financial decisions are an integral part of any business. Good financial decisions will make the business grow and prosper; poor decisions can bring a business to its knees. There is a process that will yield the best financial decisions. If followed, it will offer the highest potential for success. These...
- White papers 2007-02-11
- SSA: oral decisions.(Federal Register)(Social Security Administration)(Brief Article)
- SSA: Oral decisions. Final rule. The Social Security Administration makes it easier for administrative law judges to resolve cases orally by letting them issue written decisions that merely refer to their oral findings of fact and reasons for actin SSA: Oral decisions. Final rule....
- Research articles 2004-10-29
- TechTarget's Storage Decisions Wraps in Las Vegas; Las Vegas Event Added to Meet Storage Vendor Demand for TechTarget's Buyer-only Storage Event
- NEEDHAM, Mass. -- Information-technology IT media company TechTarget today wrapped Storage Decisions Las Vegas, the third Storage Decisions conference of 2005. TechTarget extended the Storage Decisions brand to meet sponsor demand for TechTarget's storage events and to enable storage vendors to divert their dollars from events providing lower return on...
- Research articles 2005-11-11
- European Competition Law: Commission Decisions on State Aid.
- On 11 December 2002 the European Commission issued a series of decisions ranging from minor investigations in inducements for new regional operations to major State Aid infringement cases. The broad nature of the CommissionAEs decisions shows us jus On 11 December 2002 the European Commission...
- Research articles 2003-02-05
- New Do's and Don'ts For Protecting the Heart; July 'Consumer Reports on Health' Cover Story is Concise Guide to Tough Decisions on Heart Health
- YONKERS, N.Y., July 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Making the right decisions about heart health is a complex task made even harder by the rapidly evolving advice that emerges from medical research. To help consumers make the hard decisions they face in trying to YONKERS, N.Y., July 28 /U.S. Newswire/ --...
- Research articles 2005-07-28
- Six Steps to Making Good Decisions
- I once worked on a book aimed at better decision-making. The authors were bright researchers, hot shot business school professors with blue-chip consulting clients who had used their theories to make better decisions. They hoped their book would do for corporate decision-making what "In Search of Excellence" had done...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
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