Book Titles

Decisive
How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

By Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Year Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0307956392
Categories: Decision Making

84 Quotes Found

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Decisive:

…with more distance we can see more clearly the most important dimensions of the issue we’re facing.

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…in helping us to break a decision log-jam, the single most effective question may be: What would I tell my best friend to do in this situation?

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…it’s so important to enshrine core priorities, not just cheerlead for generic values.

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This is one of the classic tensions of management: You want to encourage people to use their judgment, but you also need your team members’ judgments to be correct and consistent.

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When we identify and enshrine our priorities, our decisions are more consistent and less agonizing.

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We need to stretch our sense of what the future might bring, considering many possibilities, both good and bad…

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When we think about the extremes, we stretch our sense of what’s possible, and that expanded range better reflects reality.

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Even if we have a pretty good guess about the future, the research on overconfidence suggests that we’ll be wrong more often than we think.

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The effort it takes to explore the full spectrum of possibilities and to prepare for the worst possible scenarios acts powerfully to counteract overconfidence.

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Just assume that you’re being overconfident and give yourself a healthy margin of error.

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