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The Little Book of Big Decision Models
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The Little Book of Big Decision Models

by Dr. Jim McGrath
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 26m
English
Pearson Education Limited
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PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND HOW THEY CAN PRODUCE GOOD AND BAD DECISIONS

I hope that you enjoyed reading the ‘A good decision/bad decision’ entries and that you found time to jot down a few notes about why you think people made the decisions they did.

Without all the details it’s not possible to say why people took a specific decision and rejected another. It might be because they lacked information or didn’t understand the importance of certain data. However, it is possible to identify certain very human characteristics that time and again influence both good and bad decisions and it is these that I have highlighted below.

THE SEVEN VIRTUES OF GOOD DECISION MAKERS

Successful decision makers often display one or more of the following characteristics: ...

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