Management Decision Making
- 4 Courses | 3h 10m 39s
- 6 Books | 24h 42m
- 10 Audiobooks | 32h 38s
Discover intuitive and reasoned processes that lead to effective decision making and better outcomes for your organization. Decision making involves choosing between possible solutions to a problem. Learn how these decisions can be made through intuitive or reasoned processes, or a combination of the two.
COURSES INCLUDED
Problem Solving: Generating Solutions
When faced with business challenges, defining the problem is an important step, but it's only the first in a series of steps. Now comes the hard part: finding ways to solve the problem. Generating multiple solutions allows you to open up your thinking and reexamine your opportunities and possibilities. Studies have found that when decision makers considered two or more possible solutions, the average failure rate of an implemented solution dropped from 50% to 30%. Generating alternative solutions sets the stage for creativity, innovation, and success. It allows your company to pursue not just a good solution, but the best solution. In this course, you will explore the process of generating alternative solutions to business problems. You'll look at the types of information you need to gather before you can begin, ways to brainstorm creatively and productively, and how to use the ideas that come from it to fashion and solidify actionable solutions. Finally, you'll learn to identify potential pitfalls to generating solutions and how to mitigate or avoid them.
6 videos |
22m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Making Effective Decisions in Teams
The ability of teams to collaborate to make effective decisions is at the heart of organizational performance. However, many teams leave value on the table when making decisions together. By understanding how to design and manage team decisions better, you can increase the performance of your team and the organization as a whole. In this Leadercamp, Dr. Lindy Greer, an award-winning professor at Michigan Ross, will guide you in gaining a comprehensive understanding of how to help your team make effective decisions that elevate their performance and the organization as a whole. Through her expertise and guidance, you'll learn how to design a team set up for great decisions, manage the discussion process, and make high-quality decisions that inspire commitment and buy-in and help the team and organization perform effectively.
1 video |
52m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Decision Making
It's one thing to generate lots of great ideas, but how do you choose? Most of the time, making a decision can be stressful, and getting everyone on the same page can be very difficult. In this Leadercamp, PMP and managing partner at Lemmex Williams Training Steve Lemmex explains the tools to analyze the pros and cons of potential solutions, weigh the risks, and make values-based decisions to solve problems.
1 video |
58m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Demystifying the Problem Solving Process
We all face business problems on a daily basis and often feel at a loss on how to solve them. This Leadercamp provides step-by step guidance on how to identify the core issues, how to effectively communicate the problem, and how to implement solutions. Drawing upon her thirty-three years of experience as Vice President of Communications, Marketing and Public Relations at IBM, Siemens, Nokia, and ROVi Corporation, expert Leadership Coach Yvette Castanon will reveal how we can approach problem solving in a new light. By attending this Leadercamp, you will learn techniques to determine the true scope of the problem, evaluate multiple solutions and implement the best solution.
1 video |
56m
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Book
Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting, Second EditionFor everyone in a business- focused role who wants to establish or contribute to Business Analytics, this essential resource offers real-world guidance for organizations looking to leverage their data into a competitive advantage.
4h 48m
By Gert H. N. Laursen, Jesper Thorlund
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Four Cornered Leadership: A Framework for Making DecisionsPresenting information in bite-sized chunks supported by charts and graphs, this book supplies you with a new way to view leadership that is based on learning and continual modification in response to prevailing conditions.
3h 46m
By John Roland Schultz
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Decide: Better Ways of Making Better DecisionsFree from business jargon, and filled with relevant case studies, this thought-provoking and practical book helps readers make the right decisions and choose from their options wisely, whether they have 60 days, 60 minutes or just 60 seconds.
5h 10m
By David Wethey
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Successful Decision-Making: A Systematic Approach to Complex Problems, Third EditionOffering a decision making procedure for solving complex problems, this step-by-step book focuses on problem analysis, developing solution options and establishing the decision making matrix.
3h 13m
By Richard Kühn, Rudolf Grünig
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Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard ProblemsIdentifying six enabling conditions that increase the likelihood that teams will be effective in any setting or type of organization, this book discusses how leaders can create an environment where teamwork flourishes.
4h 26m
By J. Richard Hackman
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Think Smarter: Critical Thinking to Improve Problem-Solving and Decision-Making SkillsPresenting a pragmatic set of tools to apply critical thinking techniques to everyday business issues, this book is filled with real world examples that demonstrate how the tools work in action and includes dozens of practice exercises applicable across industries and functions.
3h 19m
By Michael Kallet
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Strategic Decision Making: A Discovery-Led Approach to Critical Choices in Turbulent TimesIn Strategic Decision Making, authors Simon Haslam and Ben Shenoy discuss how greater flexibility and a scientific, discovery-based approach to making decisions can allow companies to thrive. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretations of its content.
23m 46s
By Ben Shenoy, Simon Haslam
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The Little Black Book of Decision Making: Making Complex Decisions with Confidence in a Fast-Moving WorldThe Little Black Book of Decision Making teaches you how to hone your decision-making skills in a way that multiplies their effectiveness. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
22m 39s
By Michael Nicholas
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151 Quick Ideas for Delegating and Decision Making151 Quick Ideas for Delegating and Decision Making empowers you to navigate the multilevel decision-making landscape and to use delegation to grow a cohesive team geared toward achievement. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
23m 17s
By Robert E. Dittmer, Stephanie McFarland
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Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them RightFor senior managers, educators, consultants, or simply people interested in learning how organizations made positive changes at critical times, Judgment Calls will show you how collective judgment works in different organizations. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
13m 16s
By Brook Manville, Thomas H. Davenport
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Business Data Science: Combining Machine Learning and Economics to Optimize, Automate, and Accelerate Business DecisionsIn Business Data Science, author Matt Taddy reveals how to apply the building blocks of machine learning to big data analysis and create robust predictions from complex data in a way that works for you. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
24m 36s
By Matt Taddy
Audiobook
Tough Management: The 7 Winning Ways to Make Tough Decisions Easier, Deliver the Numbers, and Grow Business in Good Times and BadThis audio edition reveals how successful business leaders have met the demand to do more, deliver more, and increase more--without raising stress levels.
3h 51m 12s
By Chuck Martin
Audiobook
Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the PlanThis audio edition reveals how to identify and deflect the many hidden influences that confound our intentions and keep our true objectives out of reach.
9h 1m 33s
By Francesca Gino
Audiobook
The Leader's Way: The Art of Making the Right Decisions in Our Careers, Our Companies, and the World at LargeThis audio edition provides a powerful manifesto for leading change at every level-in our lives, our organizations, and the wider world.
5h 53m 37s
By His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Laurens van den Muyzenberg
Audiobook
Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep It from Happening to YouThis audio edition offers a powerful model for making better decisions, describing the key red flags to watch for and detailing the decision-making safeguards we need.
7h 3m 8s
By Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead, Sydney Finkelstein
Audiobook
The Decision Maker: Unlock the Potential of Everyone in Your Organization, One Decision at a TimeThis audio edition shows us how giving decisions to the people closest to the action can transform any organization.
4h 23m 34s
By Dennis Bakke
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