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Decide and Conquer: The Ultimate Guide for Improving Your Decision Making, Second Edition
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Decide and Conquer: The Ultimate Guide for Improving Your Decision Making, Second Edition

by Stephen P. Robbins
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 10m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Decide and Conquer: The Ultimate Guide for Improving Your Decision Making, Second Edition

2. The Search for Rationality

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

—M. Twain.

Sean Norris was facing a decision that many of us faced when we were about 17 or 18 years of age. A senior in high school, Sean was trying to decide where to go to college.

Picking a college is a big decision. It would determine where Sean would be for the next four years. It would set the direction for the rest of his life. Sean wasn’t about to approach a decision like this lightly.

Sean began by listing his criteria for what he wanted in a college. He preferred someplace not too far from his hometown, so he could drive home for long weekends and holidays. The school would have to have a program in accounting, since he was pretty ...

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