Decisions Over Decimals

Foreword

Striking the Balance between Intuition and Information

— Christopher Frank, Paul Magnone, Oded Netzer

In February 2020 before the world as we knew it changed forever, I walked onto Columbia University's upper west side campus as a guest speaker to Chris, Paul, and Oded's executive seminar on Quantitative Intuition (QI)™. Having worked closely with Paul for years in business and knowing of his work with Chris and Oded at Columbia, I was eager to engage as both a speaker and a student myself. The 45 business, government, and institutional leaders attending the session were diverse, formidable in their fields and an extremely talented group. So why did they come?

The saying “hindsight is 20/20” speaks to the wisdom of seeing things clearly in retrospect. But what if you could flip the switch to enhance your foresight materially?

Decisions Over Decimals is rooted in over 7 years of evolving QI coursework taught 4 times a year and the decades of collective experiences of the authors in varying fields. It offers both an enlightened understanding of how and why you think and process information a certain way, while giving you a repertoire of tools and techniques to fundamentally make more thoughtful, better choices.

This collaborative effort brings together each author's unique perspectives, valuable insights, and relatable experiences to you. The structure provides a clear end‐to‐end framework that taken in its parts, or as a whole, will up your strategic thinking and ...