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Author(s):
J. Edward Russo, Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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Topic(s):
Human Dimensions of Fire Management
Decisionmaking & Sensemaking
Risk
Risk assessment

NRFSN number: 18893
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Make Every Decision Your Best Decision

Executives rate decision-making ability as the most important business skill, but few people have the training they need to make good decisions consistently.

Becoming a good decision-maker is like training to be a top athlete: Just as the best coaches use training methods to help athletes develop proper techniques and avoid mistakes, Dr. J. Edward Russo and Dr. Paul J. H. Schoemaker have developed a program that can help you avoid "decision traps" -- the ten common decision-making errors that most people make over and over again.

Dr. Russo and Dr. Schoemaker have improved the decision-making skills of thousands of Fortune 500 executives with this program. Now you can use their decision-making techniques to make sure that your last bad decision was your last bad decision.

Citation

Russo JE, Schoemaker PJH. 1989. Decision traps: the ten barriers to brilliant decision-making and how to overcome them. New York: Simon & Schuster: 280 p.

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