Download or read book Common Sense Decision making written by Gordon Scott Fulcher and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook on the art of decision making - includes behavioural aspects, procedures, and techniques that lead to making the best choice among alternatives. Bibliography pp. 75 and 76.
Download or read book Decisions Without Mistakes written by Kim Ward and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-01-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've been in management, leadership, supervision, and directorship whatever everyone is calling it this week, all of my adult life. As I'm sure, so have many of you. Whether we were appointed, anointed or the last person standing makes no difference, the responsibilities of the job are the same: we're expected to be successful with our team. Our life, as soon as we receive the responsibility, can become a barrage of meetings, telephone calls, e-mails, paperwork, reports, customer complaints, issues, concerns, and downright problems. Isn't management/ leadership supposed to be a promotion and honor? Wow! This book is a very small distillation of some common sense principles, attitudes, strategies, and techniques that thousands have worked with me to develop during my career as a trainer and consultant. I've witnessed, researched, and experienced the ever-changing work environment, and the outcome is a management/leadership process that is proven to work in today's interesting and challenging business setting. This book is a part of that process. The content in these pages can help any manager/ leader develop better business relationships, build more powerful teams, achieve higher goals, reduce stress in themselves and others, but most importantly make Decisions Without Mistakes!
Download or read book Common Sense Decision Making written by Gordon C. Fulcher and published by . This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Sense written by Michael Goodyear and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will increasing your level of Common Sense do for you and how can it help you daily? It is the gift that keeps on giving for the rest of your life. Literally, it will always be there for you if you don't get irrational or overly emotional and not remember to use it. It helps you to learn how to see opportunities sooner. You become aware of problems before they get too big so you can come up with better and faster ideas to deal with them that benefit you the most. It helps you to learn why to focus most of your energy on the solution instead of dwelling on the problem. You learn to see just who your real friends are and ways to deal with what you find. Common Sense helps you to see that the end result is almost always your decision. It can help you see when to end a relationship, look for another job or change the direction of your life. It helps you make that hard decision to sever all ties with a situation and when you may not want to or need to completely burn that bridge behind you. Increased common sense is priceless as it gives you more control over the outcome of your interactions with others. It helps you to see if you are keeping pace with the changes in your life. Just remember, sometimes we move forward, sometimes we stand still or regroup and rest and sometimes we even end up going backwards. It is all part of the process. Winning and failure go hand-in-hand as without both you won't know how to appreciate the other. They both teach valuable lessons. Just remember, change is inevitable regardless of which way it goes. You are steering the ship so you get to make the decisions on the direction you want your life to go most of the time. Do you want more ways to look at the situations that are happening around you? Learning how to develop your own version of common sense can help. Remember, common sense is not common. Many things that happen in life are not common and sometimes they don't really make much sense at all. We can't change the past even if it just happened but learning more common sense can help us to make better choices for the future. Your confidence level goes up as you take more control over your emotional responses. It helps you to see when to just keep your opinion to yourself and when to stop an argument with someone that you know will never see your point, sometime before it even starts. It helps you to find reasons to walk away and distance yourself from that negative energy. You can apply common sense to all areas of your life. Increasing your common sense improves your control over the outcome of your decisions. As you increase your ability to grasp more concepts of common sense and human relations, you will find better ways to use them to deal with many of the stressful situations that come up in your life. It will help to increase your ability to have better human relations with everyone around you because you will recognize many of the things that used to trigger negative responses from you. You will be able to let many of those negative feelings slide by without having negative responses to them in the first place. How can it help you? If you understand the things that usually trigger bad reactions from you, then you can actually create better control over the choices you make to deal with those things in the future. Life is a series of choices and sometimes we need to take more time to make those choices if life allows us that luxury. Just don't stand in the middle of a cross walk to answer a text from someone. Wait until you are on the sidewalk, LOL. If you don't react negatively to most of the things that come up in your life, then you will be able to calmly deal with them no matter what they are. You just have to understand that everything in life is a lesson and the sooner you learn this lesson the sooner you can move on to the next lesson. Common sense is simply the art of making the best out of what happens to you in all areas of your li
Download or read book Planning Common Sense and Superior Performance written by Erwin Rausch and published by IAP. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to help you enhance your common sense (your intuitive decision making skills) as well as your critical thinking skills (your rational planning and decision-making skills). A big claim, to be certain, but undoubtedly a valid one. As you are aware, your common sense, and with it your ability to make many decisions almost intuitively with minimum thought, is vastly better today than it was when you were a teenager. Experience and learning that translated itself into better judgment and reasoning ability, accounts for this change. More precisely, new knowledge led to thought habits that became so solid that you spend hardly a moment on decisions to which they apply. That is how common sense and judgment mature. Practicing the relatively simple formula that this book offers, and developing the habit to apply it regularly, will help you take another quantum step toward a higher level of common sense and intuitive reasoning when you develop plans and make decisions. At the same time, the book will provide you with tools that will sharpen your ability to think about work and personal decisions you are facing from a more comprehensive perspective than you are probably doing now. In addition to helping with plans and decisions, the book will show you how to be an more effective leader. If you manage anything, with or without staff, are preparing for managerial responsibities as a college student, or if you seek to take a managerial career track, this book can be of significant use to you. It does not matter whether your career is in business, non-profit organization, or government, in health care, retail, engineering, or transportation, just to name a few. The concept presented here addresses decisions on matters which, directly or indirectly, involve people. If you are, or expect to be a manager with a small or a large staff, this book will not only help you make better managerial decisions, it will also help you become a better leader. However, even if you are on a professional track where you manage a function, but do not, or will not have anyone reporting to you, your work still has impact on people. In these professional positions the leadership aspects of your managerial responsibilities may just be of smaller impact, overall, on your plans and decisions. You will, nevertheless bring better results if you consider many of the thoughts and concepts discussed here. Moreover, most professionals are frequently in positions on teams or projects where they are likely to assume leadership responsibilities. In these situations, the concepts discussed in this book can be most useful. Even where your leadership and management responsibilities, and decisions, involve family affairs, most of the sections of this book can be valuable. They address key issues for decision-making and interpersonal relations, and they do it from a unique and comprehensive perspective.
Download or read book Common Stocks and Common Sense written by Edgar Wachenheim, III and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep insight and candid discussion from one of Wall Street's best investors Common Stocks and Common Sense provides detailed insight into common stock investing, using a case-study approach based on real-world investments. Author Edgar Wachenheim is the 28-year CEO of Greenhaven Associates, boasting an average annual portfolio comparable to Warren Buffet's. In this book, he shares his knowledge and experiences by providing detailed analyses of actual investments made by himself and other investors. The discussion covers the entire investment process, including the softer, human side, with candid insight into the joys and frustrations, intensities and pressures, and risks and uncertainties. The unique emphasis on behavioral economics and real-world cases set this book apart from the herd—but it's Wachenheim himself and his deeply-examined perspective that elevates the book beyond a mere investing guide. Between 1990 and 2014, a typical portfolio managed by Wachenheim enjoyed an average annual return in excess of 18%, achieved using relatively conservative stocks and no financial leverage. As a proponent of evidence and example, his analysis of real cases serve as a valuable education for anyone looking to improve their own investment practices. Understand investment through the lens of a Wall Street leader Dig into the details of real-world common stock investing Learn how to invest creatively and minimize risk Go beyond theory to study strategy on a case-by-case basis Investment principles and strategies are easy to find—entire libraries have been written about theories and methods and what 'should' happen. But this book goes beyond the typical guide to show you how these ideas are applied in the real world—and what actually happened. Investors seeking real insight, real expertise, and a proven track record will find Common Stocks and Common Sense a uniquely useful resource.
Download or read book The Science of Common Sense written by Frank Tillman and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to discussing the myriad of decision science methods available to solution developers, it is essential they be easy to use, easy to understand, and provide examples of their use in the field. The Science of Common Sense: Best Practical Decision Science Methods presents a selection of the very best decision-making methodologies based on the insights of authors Frank A. Tillman, PhD, PE, and Deandra T. Cassone, PhD, PMP-insights they gained through years of consulting, operating their own companies, and working in a variety of corporate situations. This guide to decision science best practices explores a number of methodologies that are organized into sections covering multiple criteria and ranking techniques, multiple objective decision-making, and group decision-making, which includes idea generation and expert opinion. It also introduces data mining and analysis, presents an overview of simulation, and delivers practical applications for these tools. Professionals and academics interested in the areas of business, industrial engineering, and decision science will find this to be an indispensable follow-up to the authors' previous book, A Professional's Guide to Decision Science and Problem Solving.
Download or read book Logically Fallacious written by Bo Bennett and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-02-19 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions. Logically Fallacious is one of the most comprehensive collections of logical fallacies with all original examples and easy to understand descriptions, perfect for educators, debaters, or anyone who wants to improve his or her reasoning skills. "Expose an irrational belief, keep a person rational for a day. Expose irrational thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime." - Bo Bennett This 2021 Edition includes dozens of more logical fallacies with many updated examples.
Download or read book The Common Sense Way written by Pete Blaber and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about common sense, what it is, how to make it, and how to put it into practice across all contexts of leadership and life
Download or read book A Wealth of Common Sense written by Ben Carlson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple guide to a smarter strategy for the individual investor A Wealth of Common Sense sheds a refreshing light on investing, and shows you how a simplicity-based framework can lead to better investment decisions. The financial market is a complex system, but that doesn't mean it requires a complex strategy; in fact, this false premise is the driving force behind many investors' market "mistakes." Information is important, but understanding and perspective are the keys to better decision-making. This book describes the proper way to view the markets and your portfolio, and show you the simple strategies that make investing more profitable, less confusing, and less time-consuming. Without the burden of short-term performance benchmarks, individual investors have the advantage of focusing on the long view, and the freedom to construct the kind of portfolio that will serve their investment goals best. This book proves how complex strategies essentially waste these advantages, and provides an alternative game plan for those ready to simplify. Complexity is often used as a mechanism for talking investors into unnecessary purchases, when all most need is a deeper understanding of conventional options. This book explains which issues you actually should pay attention to, and which ones are simply used for an illusion of intelligence and control. Keep up with—or beat—professional money managers Exploit stock market volatility to your utmost advantage Learn where advisors and consultants fit into smart strategy Build a portfolio that makes sense for your particular situation You don't have to outsmart the market if you can simply outperform it. Cut through the confusion and noise and focus on what actually matters. A Wealth of Common Sense clears the air, and gives you the insight you need to become a smarter, more successful investor.
Download or read book The Death of Common Sense written by Philip K. Howard and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. America is drowning—in law, lawsuits, and nearly endless red tape. Before acting or making a decision, we often abandon our best instincts. We pause, we worry, we equivocate, and then we divert our energy into trying to protect ourselves. Filled with one too many examples of bureaucratic overreach, The Death of Common Sense demonstrates how we—and our country—can at last get back on track.
Download or read book The Common Sense Leader written by Vantrel Mainor and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All leadership decisions are not complicated; however, leaders themselves can make decisions more complicated than they should be. Ego, insecurity, indecisiveness, fear, etc. contributes to the lack of common- sense leadership needed today. The factors afore mentioned create confusion that can impede sound leadership decision making. This lack of common-sense decision making, communication, and/or implementation tears away at the fabric of our cities, states, and nation if you are in government. It cripples businesses if you are an entrepreneur. It destabilizes our schools if you are in education. It is no longer the question of "Where have all the leaders gone?" but rather "Where have all the common-sense leaders gone?"
Download or read book The Culture Cycle written by James L. Heskett and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contribution of culture to organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. In The Culture Cycle, renowned thought leader James Heskett demonstrates how an effective culture can account for 20-30% of the differential in performance compared with "culturally unremarkable" competitors. Drawing on decades of field research and dozens of case studies, Heskett introduces a powerful conceptual framework for managing culture, and shows it at work in a real-world setting. Heskett's "culture cycle" identifies cause-and-effect relationships that are crucial to shaping effective cultures, and demonstrates how to calculate culture's economic value through "Four Rs": referrals, retention, returns to labor, and relationships. This book: Explains how culture evolves, can be shaped and sustained, and serve as the organization's "internal brand." Shows how culture can promote innovation and survival in tough times. Guides leaders in linking culture to strategy and managing forces that challenge it. Shows how to credibly quantify culture's impact on performance, productivity, and profits. Clarifies culture's unique role in mission-driven organizations. A follow-up to the classic Corporate Culture and Performance (authored by Heskett and John Kotter), this is the next indispensable book on organizational culture. "Heskett (emer., Harvard Business School) provides an exhaustive examination of corporate policies, practices, and behaviors in organizations." Summing Up: Recommended. Reprinted with permission from CHOICE, copyright by the American Library Association.
Download or read book Common Sense written by Ken Tanner and published by Apress. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “He may have an MBA, but he’s got no common sense.” Assessments like that by a boss can stop a career dead in its tracks. Unfortunately, many believe that common sense is a trait you are either born with or you are not. This book dispels that myth. Through the pages of Common Sense: Get It, Use It, and Teach It in the Workplace readers will learn not only what common sense is, but how to acquire it and use it to enhance their careers, increase their confidence, and take better advantage of business opportunities. Common Sense explores the use—and non-use—of common sense in the workplace and the world around us. It shows how you can become a person of great wisdom and good judgment by simply learning about all the ways people stumble in the thought process. Author Ken Tanner, a seasoned manager, consultant, and former regional vice president for two major U.S. restaurant chains, shows readers how to make better decisions, how to spot and avoid fallacious thinking, how to better assess ambiguous situations, and how to become a mature thinker with a knack for making the right move at just the right time. Best of all, Common Sense shows how to teach this trait to others, especially subordinates and co-workers who can and will do nonsensical things unless you help them learn to reason through their decisions and actions quickly and confidently. The payoff? Your staff will make you look good, greasing the way for greater responsibility and opportunity. This book: Takes you through an understanding of the term "common sense"—what it means and what it doesn’t mean. Shows how fallacies create barriers to using common sense. Provides dozens of examples of the application (as well as rejection) of common sense in the business world and elsewhere. Shows how to teach common sense to others.
Download or read book Common Sense written by Lewis Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title indicates this is a book about common sense. Please do not assume that common sense means "doing what the crowd does". After all, sometime the "crowd" isn't that intelligent.As the term is usually applied, Common Sense is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, wisdom and insight. This implies a possession of essential information or the seeking of knowledge to be effectively applied to a given circumstance. To do this requires an understanding of people, objects, events, and situations. This also implies the willingness to apply intuition, perception, judgment, and action in keeping with the understanding of what is the optimal course of action. To have common sense requires control of one's emotional reactions (the "passions") so that the universal principle of reason prevails to determine one's choices. In short, "common sense", as we use the term on the Wisdom Path, is a disposition to find the truth coupled with an optimum judgment as to what actions should be taken.It is not always easy to have common sense. More often than not we exist in a state of bewilderment, unclear of what is "So", what needs to be done, and how to go about doing it. We often lack the ability to place ourselves correctly in the world by time, location, personal identity and through social relationships. This mental confusion is sometimes accompanied by disordered consciousness (the loss of linear thinking) and an inability to correctly recall previous events or learn new material. We often make poor choices because we lack the ability to focus our attention; are impaired in awareness; or have been provided with poor or flawed information.This book, "Common Sense: Tips, Tools, and Strategies for Making Effective Decisions", is Volume 3 in the series, "the Teachings of Lewis Harrison". It was written specifically to help you create a life of greater love, freedom, mental clarity, emotional balance, spiritual wholeness and happiness based on the making of wise, effective, efficient and productive choices.If you are ready to give up your struggles and unnecessary suffering then this book is a must read!Lewis Harrison, a pioneer in the personal development and human potential movement, and a senior teacher and mentor in the Wisdom Path Community has created a series of teachings to help you to magnify your potential on all levels.As the best elements of your life are magnified and you embrace them, this book and all the volumes in "The Teachings of Lewis Harrison" will be available to assist you in creating a practical order and harmony to the messy chaos that often passes for normal living. This is a book for the person or group of individuals who know they have an obstacle to transcend or overcome. Whether they call it a problem or an opportunity to learn something and grow from the experience is irrelevant. Whatever their attitude may be about the challenge it is nonetheless a challenge. If you are so spiritually focused or are so detached from the affairs of the world that nothing really seems to matter to you then this book can do nothing for you. If you are arrogant, a "know it all" or are committed to a life of struggle and suffering this book can offer you even less. The goal of this book is basic, and simple - to give you the skills necessary to addresses any problem, obstacle or challenge no matter how complex. Most problems can be solved with basic logic, rational thought, good advice, common sense and a respect for intuition and creativity. Intuition and creativity are essential here since there are some problems that do not respond to rational, and common sense thinking. These problems require a new or different type of thinking. This new type of thinking may take many forms including artistically based "design thinking". This form of thinking is less concerned with dissecting a problem and instead focuses on finding a workable solution.
Download or read book The Art of Decision Making written by Morton Davis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suppose you had the chance to invest in a venture that succeeds half the time. When you fail you lose your in vestment; when you succeed you make a profit of$1.60 for every $1.00 you invest. The odds are 8 to 5 in your favor and you should do well-casinos and insurance companies thrive under less favorable conditions. If you can invest as much as you like, as often as you like, using a betting system that guarantees you can't go broke, common sense suggests you will almost certainly make aprofitafteryou make a large numberofinvestments. In response to yourrequest for a hot stock yourastrologer tells you ABC Inc. will triple in a year (she's really a fraud and picked the stock at random). But since such stocks are rare (one in athousand) you consultan expert and, strangely enough, he confirms the astrologer. From experience you know that the expert diagnoses all stocks, good and bad, correctly, 90% of the time. Common sense suggests you have an excellent chance of tripling your money. You are chairman of acommittee ofthree. Decisions are made by majority rule but if there is no majority your vote as chairman breaks ties. Common sense suggests you will inevitably have more power to determine the outcome than the other members.
Download or read book It s Your Decision written by Al Foderaro and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Francelli had a modest row home in a blue-collar town where her son Johnny and his friends hung out during their formative years in the sixties. They were good, fun-loving kids who did what kids do until they were gradually drawn into the troublesome events unfolding around them: a divisive war in Vietnam, raucous protests, and strained race relations. But through it all, Anna's home remained a refuge and, for a core of the boys, Anna became a pillar of strength for over forty years. Sweeping through almost half a century, Anna's Boys provides insight into the unique perspective of a baby boom generation that fought one war in its youth and, in later years, watched another develop in the Middle East. At times funny and heartwarming, at times moving and poignant, Anna's Boys tells a timeless story of personal commitment, loyalty, sacrifice and triumph, with characters you will learn to love, set in a small town that could very well be your own
