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The art of critical decision making / Michael A. Roberto.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Great courses | The great courses | The Great CoursesPublication details: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., 2009.Description: 2 v. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1598035401
  • 9781598035407
Uniform titles:
  • The Great Courses
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370
LOC classification:
  • LB 14.6 R642ar 2009
Contents:
v. 1. Making high-stakes decisions ; Cognitive biases ; Avoiding decision-making traps Framing--risk or opportunity? ; Intuition--recognizing patterns ; Reasoning by analogy Making sense of ambiguous situations ; The wisdom of crowds? ; Groupthink--thinking or conforming? ; Deciding how to decide ; Stimulating conflict and debate ; Keeping conflict constructive -- v. 2. Creativity and brainstorming ; The curious inability to decide ; Procedural justice ; Achieving closure through small wins ; Normal accident theory ; Normalizing deviance ; Allison's model--three lenses ; Practical drift ; Ambiguous threats and the recovery window ; Connecting the dots ; Seeking out problems ; Asking the right questions.
Summary: Explores how individuals, groups, and organizations make effective decisions and offers techniques for effective decision-making. Includes case studies.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) LB 14.6 R642ar 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) v.1 1 Available 00000137035
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) LB 14.6 R642ar 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) v.2 1 Available 00000137036

Course no. 5932.

"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.

v. 1. Making high-stakes decisions ; Cognitive biases ; Avoiding decision-making traps Framing--risk or opportunity? ; Intuition--recognizing patterns ; Reasoning by analogy Making sense of ambiguous situations ; The wisdom of crowds? ; Groupthink--thinking or conforming? ; Deciding how to decide ; Stimulating conflict and debate ; Keeping conflict constructive -- v. 2. Creativity and brainstorming ; The curious inability to decide ; Procedural justice ; Achieving closure through small wins ; Normal accident theory ; Normalizing deviance ; Allison's model--three lenses ; Practical drift ; Ambiguous threats and the recovery window ; Connecting the dots ; Seeking out problems ; Asking the right questions.

Explores how individuals, groups, and organizations make effective decisions and offers techniques for effective decision-making. Includes case studies.

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