Making Better Business Decisions: Understanding and Improving Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills - Hardcover

Williams, Steve W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761924213 ISBN 13: 9780761924210

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2002

Synopsis

This book will help you deal with the hundreds of decisions you are faced with every day. It will show you how:

• The mind processes information
• Biological, physiological, and psychological factors influence thinking
• To better prepare yourself to address probable influences on your decisions
• To unleash the creative potential in your mind

This book distills what behavioral science has discovered related to how people, especially those in business, make decisions. Making Better Business Decisions will enable decision-makers to:

• Recognize and focus on the truly important decisions that require critical thinking
• Analyze options more clearly and creatively
• Reduce decisional time and effort
• Improve judgement quality

Awareness and application of the material contained within will enable us not only to improve our own decisions, but will also provide the means for us to understand how and why others decide as they do.

Applying rational decisional techniques or intuition can most likely solve our everyday routine, repetitive, and minor problems. As decisions become more important and problems become more difficult, the energy required by critical thinking skills and creative problem solving can improve the quality of our thought processes and increase the likelihood of uncovering optimal solutions.

 

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Synopsis

This book will help readers deal with the hundreds of decisions that are faced every day. It will demonstrate how: * The mind processes information * Biological, physiological, and psychological factors influence thinking * To better prepare yourself to address probable influences on your decisions * To unleash the creative potential in your mind This book outlines how people, especially those in business, make decisions . Making Better Business Decisions will enable decision-makers to: * Recognize and focus on the truly important decisions that require critical thinking * Analyze options more clearly and creatively * Reduce decisional time and effort * Improve judgement quality The awareness and application of the material contained in this book will enable professionals, academics and students not only to improve their own decisions, but will also provide the means to understand how and why decisions are made. This work will show how applying rational decisional techniques or intuition can solve repetitive and minor problems.This work breaks down critical thinking skills and creative problem solving techniques that can assist and help as decisions become more important and problems become more difficult in today's society and business environment.

This book is a beneficial for professionals, academics and students in business and organizational behaviour.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761924213
• ISBN 13: 9780761924210
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176