Making Great Decisions in Business and Life
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0976854112 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 287 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is, simply, a great book. O. --Jack Covert, 800-CEO-READMaking Great Decisions flows like butter. Honestly, I carried this book around with me and read it at every spare moment. If my predecessors at the companies I turned around had read and understood this book, their companies wouldn t have needed me. I wish I had had this book when I taught decision analysis at Harvard. It has practical applications for business people, and yet is written for everyone. It would make a great supplementary text for virtually any course I teach. Whitney, Columbia Business SchoolThis is a book that is the best of both worlds; it's full of practival advice and it's interesting. It teaches you how to think like an economist. --John. The results may surprise or even jolt you, as you discover all the mistakes you've been making and how to correct them. This brilliantly written book is a stimulating, fun read filled with great stories and
A great guide for deep decision analysis John Cain The authors go into a lot of detail in giving advice to help you to make better decisions. This advice is for those decisions where the solution is not obvious and you would like to spend the necessary time to be sure your decision is the best one.What I especially liked were the explanations of sunk costs and how to value your time. Most of the material in this book I'll be using as a reference - it is not the kind of advice that can be absorbed in one reading.The only annoyance that I encountered was the authors' use of abbreviations of their names when they. How the economic way of thinking can improve your life Dwight R. Lee Far too many people see economics as difficult, boring, and totally irrelevant to their daily lives. Henderson and Hooper demonstrate in clear and compelling language that economics is really a straightforward and exciting way to make your life more productive and enjoyable. With a large number of short, interesting and largely diagram-free examples, the authors do exactly what the title of their book promises. They show the reader how to make great decisions in their businesses and their lives. Mentioning two of their many topics, the book emphasizes how easy. political idiot said Recommended Reading. This is a good book, easy to read, and more importantly absent business jargon; but there won't be any epiphanies for anyone. The authors do offer some clarity, personal insight, and reinforce traditional methodology to help you make better, more effective, risk tolerant decisions. Essentially they successfully eliminate the fluff found in most textbooks and present the meat in an understandable and practical manner. Utilizing his background in economics, David Henderson provides a nice section on utilizing the margin for decision-making, which I have found is
Charles L. Henderson is a professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a research fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Hooper is president and co-founder of Objective Insights, a consulting company that provides financial and marketing analysis for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. He was a senior economist with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. Henderson edited the
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