Smart choices : a practical guide to making better decisions

Publication date 1999 Topics Decision making, Prise de décision, Besliskunde Publisher Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press Collection internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 251.9M

Making smart choices: how to think about your whole decision problem: a proactive approach -- Problem: how to define your decision problem to solve the right problem -- Objectives: how to clarify what you're really trying to achieve with your decision -- Alternatives: how to make smarter choices by creating better alternatives to choose from -- Consequences: how to describe how well each alternative meets your objectives -- Tradeoffs: how to make tough compromises when you can't achieve all your objectives at once -- Uncertainty: how to think about and act on uncertainties affecting your decision -- Risk tolerance: how to account for your appetite for risk -- Linked decisions: how to plan ahead by effectively coordinating current and future decisions -- Psychological traps: how to avoid some of the tricks your mind can play on you when you're deciding -- The wise decision maker: how to make smart choices a way of life

Includes bibliographical references and index

Notes

Extremely narrow margins.

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