Decide & Conquer Make Winning Decisions and Take Control of Your Life

✍ Scribed by Robbins, Stephen P

• Publisher: FT Press; PH Professional Business
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Edition: 1st edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Robbins identifies the major roadblocks that stand in the way of making high-quality decisions--and shows readers exactly how to overcome them.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 16
Preface......Page 22
Part 1 Introduction......Page 26
Chapter 1 Decision Making Shapes Your Life......Page 28
Chapter 2 The Search for Rationality......Page 32
Chapter 3 Why It’s Hard to Be Rational......Page 36
Part 2 How Do You Make Decisions?......Page 42
Chapter 4 What’s Your Decision Style?......Page 44
Chapter 5 Are You a Risk Taker?......Page 48
Chapter 6 Who Controls Your Destiny?......Page 54
Chapter 7 Do You Procrastinate?......Page 58
Chapter 8 Are You Impulsive?......Page 62
Chapter 9 Can You Control Your Emotions?......Page 66
Chapter 10 Are You Overconfident?......Page 70
Chapter 11 Understanding Your Personality Profile......Page 74
Part 3 Common Biases and Errors That Most of Us Make (and How to Overcome Them)......Page 78
Chapter 12 How Can You Be So Darn Sure About That? Coping with Overconfidence......Page 80
Chapter 13 Never Do Today That Which You Can Do Tomorrow: The Inertia Bias......Page 86
Chapter 14 I Want It, and I Want it NOW! The Immediate Gratification Bias......Page 90
Chapter 15 Where You End Up Depends on Where You Start: The Anchoring Effect......Page 94
Chapter 16 I’ll See It When I Believe It: The Selective Perception Bias......Page 98
Chapter 17 I Hear What I Want to Hear: The Confirmation Bias......Page 102
Chapter 18 Is the Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full? The Framing Bias......Page 106
Chapter 19 What Have You Done for Me Lately? The Availability Bias......Page 110
Chapter 20 Looks Can Be Deceiving: The Representation Bias......Page 114
Chapter 21 Seeing Patterns That Aren’t There: Coping with Randomness......Page 118
Chapter 22 Gone Is Not Always Forgotten: Understanding Sunk Costs......Page 122
Chapter 23 Keep It Simple: The Limited Search Error......Page 126
Chapter 24 Losing Your Head in the Heat of Battle: The Emotional Involvement Error......Page 132
Chapter 25 Who You Gonna Blame? The Self-Serving Bias......Page 136
Chapter 26 I Knew It All The Time: The Hindsight Bias......Page 140
Part 4 Advice Your Mother Never Gave You......Page 144
Chapter 27 Clear Goals and Preferences Make Choosing a Lot Easier......Page 146
Chapter 28 Choosing Not to Decide Is Still a Decision......Page 150
Chapter 29 Decisions Are Not Made in Isolation......Page 154
Chapter 30 All Decisions Aren’t Important......Page 158
Chapter 31 More Information Isn’t Necessarily Better......Page 162
Chapter 32 Don’t Rehash Past Decisions......Page 166
Chapter 33 Successful People Take Risks......Page 170
Chapter 34 It’s OK to Make Mistakes, or No One Has an Undefeated Season......Page 174
Chapter 35 Experience Can Improve Decisions, but. . .......Page 178
Chapter 36 Where You’re from Influences How You Decide......Page 182
Part 5 An Epilogue......Page 186
Chapter 37 Summary or Why Ignorance Isn’t Bliss......Page 188
Endnotes......Page 196

✦ Subjects

Nonfiction;Self Help