Business decision-making : streamlining the process for more effective results /
I have summarized my 30-year experience as a business executive and professor of business in a book on business decision making on the basis of my professional experience and academic research. Rather than approaching this topic from an academic or a theoretical point of view, I have described a ser...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) :
Business Expert Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Quantitative approaches to decision making collection.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- What are heuristics? (Rules of thumb)
- How do business executives make decisions? (Do rules of thumb count?)
- When you do not decide, you have decided (Do not procrastinate)
- Why technology is not important--or is it? (Computers are dumb)
- Experience counts (What you do not know is important)
- Learn from your failures (Do not reinvent the wheel)
- Personal presence management (Your time is not yours)
- Safety first (Without it nothing else counts)
- People count (Show them)
- Quality is free (The devil is in the detail)
- Believe in numbers--but not too much (What you can measure, you might manage)
- The customer is always right (Most of the time)
- If it ain't broken, break it (Innovate)
- Managing errors (No blame)
- The dog ate my shipment (The inconceivable is not so)
- Let go of the banana (delegate) or (delegation pitfalls)
- Everybody knows the future (Is planning overrated?)
- Complexity is out--simplicity is in (Less is more)
- Meaningless choices (Decisions that do not matter)
- The bank manager is not your friend (Do not go to the bank with a problem)
- The government can help (This is not a joke)
- Do not quit your day job (Buying a lottery ticket is not winning the lottery)
- Endnotes
- Index.