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Making smart choices is a fundamental life skill, relevant to anyone: managers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, students, parents, young, old. Your decisions will shape and influence the course of your professional career and the quality of your personal life--the ability to make good decisions is a key factor in determining whether you achieve your goals. To help you increase your chances of finding satisfying solutions, Smart Choices blends the art and science of decision making into a straightforward, proven approach for making tough choices. Smart Choices doesn't tell you what to decide; it tells you how. Authors Hammond, Keeney, and Raiffa, among the world's best-known experts on resolving complex decision problems, blend the art and the science of decision making into accessible steps that lead you to consider your choices both intuitively and analytically. Here, for the first time, is a flexible system that can be applied to business decisions, to personal decisions, to family decisions--to any decision you make.
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John S. Hammond is an internationally known decision-making consultant specializing in negotiation and corporate strategy, and a former professor at Harvard Business School.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As an executive I am faced with making key decisions almost every day. In many complex decisions there is almost always conflict between logical analysis vs. intuitive processing while there is a shortage of perfect information and time. Smart Decisions lays out a simple, clear and practical framework and process for decision making. Although many of the concepts are not novel, the power is that the book links various tools and technigues as discrete decision making steps. Each step builds on the next. They greatly enhance the concepts through many practical examples for making business and personal decisions. I highly recommend this book!
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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I had the pleasure of reading this book last year as assigned material in a graduate business course taught by Ralph Keeney. My degree is in information systems management and, frankly, I took Managerial Decision Analysis only because I needed 3 elective credits to graduate. In retrospect, however, the course was among the most beneficial to me and Smart Choices was certainly the most relevant book I read in graduate school. I say it was the most relevant because it demonstrates how to define problems and make decisions not simply as a business leader, but as an individual. The PROACT approach is a valuable tool for making formal decisions like "Which career path should I choose?" or "Which software package should I recommend to my client?" But the mentality that the approach engenders is pervasive. You will find yourself unwittingly applying elements of it to questions like "How should I spend time with my kids this weekend?" or "What is the best Valentine's Day gift for my wife?" The greatest benefit to me has been the piece of mind that comes with knowing that I don't just make better decisions -- I am now a better decision maker.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Smart Choices is one of the two best books I have read in the last year. First, because people have trouble making decisions, and second, because people usually make the wrong decisions. Smart Choices provides a yellow-brook-road to follow one step at a time to end up with the optimum decision. Optimizing decisions are much harder to reach than maximizing decisions because they do balance all elements. The PROACTive process works, I have used it. The other book I recommend you read along with Smart Choices is The 2,000 Percent Solution which explains why people are "stalled" and why they cannot make a good decision. Then it leads you through the Eight-Step Problem Solving Process to identify how to make decisions that result in 20 times the benefit or get there 20 times as fast or at 1/20th the cost. To become an expert decisions maker read both books. It's all you will need.
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Smart choice
I made a smart choice when i bought this book! Purchased mainly because i watched people trying to make a decision. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Devon witches coven
Practical, detailed and logical guide to decision making
This was a great step-by-step guide on how to make life's bigger decisions, and a good focus on how to make those day to day ones. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mr. Matthew P. Collins
THE guide to decision-making
When I started reading this book, I was bored and disappointed with the examples. The process of decision making -- problem, objectives, alternatives, consequences, and tradeoffs... Read more
Published on 12 April 1999
SUPERB BOOK FOR PERSONAL (NOT BUSINESS) DECISION-MAKING
I think this is a great book, but I disagree that it is a primary tool for executives as the last reviewer suggests. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 1999
It's easy to make good decisions
A good decision I made in the last weeks? I think to buy this book was a good choice. It offers of course not the answers to all your questions in life but a good and... Read more
Published on 26 Dec 1998
Decison making lessons to last a lifetime
Excellent exposition on the decision-making process. Many real life examples (personal, financial, health, etc.) really accentuates the usefulness for anyone. Read more
Published on 13 Nov 1998
The book is the best one I have ever read on decision making
I am familiar with the work of all three authors. I was pleasantly surprised to see the simple language of the book. It is simple, yet complete. Read more
Published on 13 Nov 1998
An accessible and practical guide to making smart decisions.
When I saw this book advertised I was stuck wrestling with a major career change decision. I had been worrying about making the right decision literally for months, as my whole... Read more
Published on 11 Nov 1998
Easy to use, powerful in application
_Smart Choices_ is a rarity: a work of solid, rigorous analysis which is simple to read and easy to put into practice. Read more
Published on 6 Nov 1998
A great guide to making better decisions.
What an exciting surprise. Three renowned leaders in Decision Analysis have offered up decision-making that works everyday for everybody. Read more
Published on 19 Oct 1998
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