Problem Solver: Maximizing Your Strengths to Make Better Decisions

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn

ISBN 13: 9798212378543

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Our decisions are expressions of who we are and how we move through the world. Rarely, though, do we examine our decisions or even look inward to consider the psychology of our decision-making. Instead, we often make decisions based on what we call instinct--which relies on cognitive bias, false assumptions, mis-remembering, and mental mistakes. Truthfully, we don't see the world as it is; we see it as we are.

We can develop self-knowledge about our decision-making styles. We can wake ourselves up to how biases cloud our judgment and impede good decision-making―and we can counter bias. From there, we can transform our decision-making habits to make better big decisions alone and together. Problem Solver provides you with tools to identify:

The five basic decision-making approaches, or "Problem Solver Profiles" (PSPs): Adventurer, Detective, Listener, Thinker, and Visionary

Your dominant―and secondary―PSPs

Tools to assess other peoples' PSPs

Each PSP's decision-making strengths, blind spots, and biases

How your PSP impacts your outlook on life and your risk appetite

How to use your PSP to maximize your decision strengths

Replete with real-life examples and replicable strategies to apply new decision-making skills for your immediate benefit, Problem Solver will do more than help you look out into a future; it will equip you to move forward, with confidence, into your future.

About this title

About the Author

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is an award-winning investigative journalist covering business, economic, and financial news for publications including Barron's, Pro Publica, Foreign Policy, and the New York Times. She is the founder of CSE Partners, a strategic consulting practice that uses her AREA Method for businesses and individuals, and also teaches the method as an adjunct professor at Columbia University--first at the Graduate School of Journalism and now at the Columbia Business School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 13: 9798212378543
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1