Decide and Conquer: Make Winning Decisions and Take Control of Your Life - Softcover

Robbins, Stephen P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131425013 ISBN 13: 9780131425019

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2003

Synopsis

Decide & Conquer brings together all the practical skills you need to make the best possible decisions every day. This quick, concise book identifies every key obstacle to quality decision-making... and shows exactly how to overcome them. Discover how your personality impacts your decision-making... why instincts and experience can lead you astray... how to simplify complicated decisions without oversimplifying them... and much more. You'll use these techniques in your relationships, your finances, your career ... every day, everywhere.

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About the Author:

DR. STEPHEN P. ROBBINS is the world's best-selling textbook author in the areas of management and organizational behavior. His books have sold more than two million copies, are currently used by students at more than one thousand U.S. colleges and universities, and are widely read worldwide. Robbins' Organizational Behavior, Tenth Edition (Prentice Hall) is the market leader throughout Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, India, China, and Scandinavia. He is also author of the global best seller The Truth About Managing People... and Nothing But the Truth.

Dr. Robbins holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and has served in management roles for Shell and Reynolds Metals. Currently professor emeritus at San Diego State University, Dr. Robbins' research interests have focused on conflict, power, and politics in organizations, behavioral decision making, and the development of effective interpersonal skills. His articles on these and other topics have appeared in Business Horizons, California Management Review, Business and Economic Perspectives, International Management, Management Review, The Journal of Management Education, and other leading journals.

An avid participant in masters' track and field, Dr. Robbins has set numerous indoor and outdoor age-group world sprint records since turning 50 in 1993. He has won more than a dozen indoor and outdoor U.S. national titles at 60m, 100m, 200m, and 400m, and has won seven gold medals at the World Masters Championships.

Synopsis:

Better decisions lead to a better life: one that's happier, wealthier, healthier and more fulfilling. "Decide and Conquer" brings together all the practical skills readers need to make the best possible decisions every day. Best-selling author, and the world's number one management textbook author, Stephen P. Robbins draws on the latest research to identify the biggest reasons why people make poor decisions--and offer no-nonsense, plain-English solutions. Robbins' quick, easy questionnaires reveal the surprising ways your personality impacts your decisions, and helps you develop a decision-making style that works for you. Throughout, Robbins draws on the latest, as well as classic, research to reveal the decision-making mistakes virtually everyone makes. Readers discover what they can't learn from experience, why their instincts often lead them astray, how to avoid "hearing only what they want to hear," and why they might be seeing patterns that aren't there. Robbins shows how to simplify complicated decisions without oversimplifying them, and when to settle for a "good enough" decision. This book is a quick, easy read that'll pay dividends with every new decision...from the most trivial to the most important.

About this edition

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131425013
• ISBN 13: 9780131425019
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224