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Making difficult decisions : how to be decisive and get the business done / Peter Shaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Peter, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decision making.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey : Capstone, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- You are faced with so many difficult decisions. Often your decision making seems random. It can be swayed by different situations and emotions. You need to be more rigorous in the way you make decisions and yet you have very little time to do so. Experience from others who have made tough decisions and a framework to help you do so would be invaluable.The courage to make decisions is sometimes a bit elusive. It is difficult to find the calmness to be able to make and live with those decisions. There is so much that can be learned from the experience of others. After working through
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1: The 4Cs of making difficult decisions; 1 Balancing clarity and conviction; 2 Clarity; 3 Conviction; 4 Courage; 5 Communication; Part 2: Taking forward making difficult decisions; 6 Applying the learning from good decision makers; 7 Embedding the ability to make difficult decisions; 8 Enabling others to make difficult decisions; 9 Key questions when making difficult decisions; 3 Making difficult decisions in particular circumstances; 10 Making difficult decisions as the boss; 11 Making difficult decisions in relation to your boss
- 12 Making difficult decisions in relation to your peers13 Dealing with your hopes and fears; 14 Addressing values and priorities; 15 Next steps; Selected bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611840471
- 9781281840479
- 1281840475
- 9781907293863
- 1907293868
- 9780470694749
- 0470694742
- OCLC:
- 701521172
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