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Making Your Decision Making Much More Effective
As managers, we make decisions all the time. Some are perfect and others, well, maybe 'could do better'. So, how can we all make better decisions then...

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Master Your Game: Group Decision-Making Processes
You've outlined a tight agenda and designed an effective meeting process. The next step is to move discussion forward through efficient and effective decision-making. This article explains six decision rules and their appropriate uses.

Entrepreneurial Objectivity
For most of us, it's obvious that the bulk of the decisions we make on a daily basis are based upon the summation of our previous experience. Then combined with some sort of reactive observation. “That looks hot, I once was burned, don’t touch it.” A rather simplistically calculated decision to a situation, correct? There are a lot of philosophical explanations to this phenomenon, (of which I have no desire whatsoever to regurgitate.) However, the idea of understanding, evaluating and augmenting our decision making process, is quite possibly one of the most effective, yet difficult things to do.
What is a Decision Making Process to Problem Solving?
There are many approaches to problem solving and making decisions. This short article offers some suggestions for defining parameters as you approach your problem solving/decision making situations. Taking adequate time to research and brainstorm answers to your problems is a key step to any decision making situation you find yourself in whether business or personal.
Decision-making vs. Decision-getting
“If you can’t get people committed to what you are trying to do, you can’t get it done.” Carly Fiorina, former HP CEO, October 12, 2009 More than ever before, these difficult economic times require efficient management and effective leadership. We believe that efficient management is all about “decision-making” while effective leadership requires the skill of “decision-getting”. Many expect our economy to turn around in the short term but what if it doesn’t? What if it gets worse over the next three + years. Do you and your organization have the skills to “get it done” in a worsening economy?

Effective Listening: Part 2
In part one we discussed the role of emotion in decision making and made the case that effective leaders listen to HOW people say things rather than WHAT they say. This certainly compounds the challenge of being an effective listener given that the words and logic seem to play only a minor role. So what you need is a tool you can use to identify a person’s level of involvement in the decision making process. So let me start with the least involved and work our way up to the most involved.

Is Outsourcing the Creation of an Online Income Website the Best Solution?
There is quite a lot of confusion when it comes to making a decision on whether or not one should outsource the creation of an online income website. If you are having a problem with making a decision regarding your new website then here are some thoughts for you to take into consideration which should make your choice simpler.
Why Do We Need More “Whys” in Corporate Strategic Planning?
A simple question, yet powerfully thought-provoking, “Why?” is too often missing from our decision-making vocabulary. Why, what if, and other forms of critical evaluation contribute to a more effective decision-making process by promoting debate and discussion that is necessary to achieve the best possible outcome.
Why the Surgeon Refused to Operate
Intuitive based decision-making is the mark of an effective and enlightened leader in business and in life. What is it? How do you know if it's your intellect or you intuition at work?
Distribution reps as Decision-getters
More than ever before, these difficult economic times require efficient management and effective sales leadership. We believe that efficient management is all about “decision-making” while effective sales leadership requires the skill of “decision-getting”.

10 Things To Improve Decision Making
Most of us don’t have the time to work through some complicated decision-making model and, even if we did have the time, the evidence shows that there is still no guarantee that we will make a “good” decision every (or even most of) the time. In fact there is data that shows only about 15% of organisations have the ability to make and implement important decisions effectively. This article suggests 10 things that management can introduce in order to improve decision making.
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