Download or read book Discernment written by Pierre Wolff and published by Liguori/Triumph. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the time-tested spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th-century founder of the Jesuits who developed a systemic way of considering and making choices, this revised edition helps those who want to make fruitful choices and manage decisions with faithfulness to God.

Download or read book Choosing Well written by Chrisoula Andreou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on the challenges associated with effective choice over time. In particular, it considers the challenges raised by cyclic preferences and by incomplete preferences, both of which interfere with the agent's neatly ordering her options, and which make the agent susceptible to self-defeating patterns of choice in which the agent is drawn into taking each of a series of steps that collectively lead her to a result that she deems unacceptable. The book's guiding questions are the following: What is an agent to do if she finds herself with cyclic preferences or with incomplete preferences? Is an agent or group of agents with such preferences necessarily irrational? It is argued that the answer to the latter question is "no"; rationality does not invariably prohibit disorderly preferences, but it does (to get back to the first question) prompt us to proceed with caution and with a readiness to show restraint, based on an awareness of larger dynamics, when our preferences are disorderly. Theories of rational choice often dismiss or abstract away from the sorts of disorderly preferences at issue here. They assume that rational agents can and should have neat preferences over their options; but this assumption is problematic. Rationality can validate certain disorderly preference structures while also protecting us from self-defeating patterns of choice. Rationality can thus handle quite a lot of messiness, which is important, since rationality wouldn't be all that helpful if, whenever messiness threatened, we could not turn to it for guidance"--

Download or read book The Paradox of Choice written by Barry Schwartz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.

Download or read book Choosing Well written by Rachel Haliburton and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a compendium of case studies in bioethics, Choosing Well demonstrates real ethical dilemmas that can occur in health care settings. Instructors can draw upon the scenarios in this concise and highly effective resource to encourage analysis, critique, discussion, and debate of hot-button ethical issues. The authors present a diverse selection of complex case studies in bioethics to stimulate in-depth analysis on topics ranging from distributive justice, research ethics, reproductive technologies, abortion, and death and dying, to the health care professional–patient relationship and ethics in the workplace. The text also features case studies that move through time to reflect real-life decision making and cases that present multiple perspectives to illustrate the challenges that can arise from disputes in health care settings. Utilizing the DECIDED strategy for analyzing case studies, instructors can guide students through the steps needed to work through a wide variety of ethical dilemmas and encourage reflection on their own ethical assumptions. Accessible, practical, and highly engaging, Choosing Well offers a helpful and interesting way to explore central issues in contemporary bioethics, making it an indispensable resource for instructors and students of bioethics, biomedical ethics, and health care ethics. FEATURES: - Includes a brief introduction to ethics, the role of case studies, and some of the most important bioethical principles, as well as a glossary of key terms - Features Canadian-focused content and themes reflecting the challenges of modern health care settings - Provides a framework for case study analysis, along with sample analyses of three full case studies using the DECIDED approach

Download or read book Decide Well Tools for Effective Decision Making written by Amol Kindre and published by Amol kindre. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the intricate tapestry of life, decisions are the threads that weave our unique stories. But making choices can be a daunting task, requiring a blend of insight, analysis, and clarity. "Decisive Tools: Navigating Choices with Confidence" is your indispensable guide to mastering the art of effective decision-making. This eBook is your passport to a world of tools and techniques designed to demystify decision-making. Whether you're facing dilemmas in your personal life, steering through the complexities of business choices, or seeking strategies for optimal problem-solving, this guide equips you with a diverse set of tools that transform decisions from challenges into opportunities.

Download or read book Creating Great Choices written by Jennifer Riel and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move Beyond Trade-Off Thinking When it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable. But what about those crucial times when accepting the obvious trade-off just isn't good enough? What do we do when the choices in front of us don't get us what we need? In those cases, rather than choosing the least worst option, we can use the models in front of us to create a new and superior answer. This is integrative thinking. First introduced by world-renowned strategic thinker Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind, integrative thinking is an approach to problem solving that uses opposing ideas as the basis for innovation. Now, in Creating Great Choices, Martin and his longtime thinking partner Jennifer Riel vividly illustrate how integrative thinking works, and how to do it. The book includes fresh stories of successful integrative thinkers that will demystify the process of creative problem solving, as well as practical tools and exercises to help readers engage with the ideas. And it lays out the authors' four-step methodology for creating great choices, which can be applied in virtually any context. The result is a replicable, thoughtful approach to finding a "third and better way" to make important choices in the face of unacceptable trade‐offs. Insightful and instructive, Creating Great Choices blends storytelling, theory, and hands-on advice to help any leader or manager facing a tough choice.

Download or read book Faster Better Decision Making written by Instafo and published by Instafo. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art Of Personal Decision-Making "Oh dear decisions, why must you always be so difficult to make in my life?" Ever hear these voices in your head: "What should I wear today?", "What should I cook for dinner?", "What should I work on for today?", etc. Well, welcome to earth and the daily grind of life...personal life that is. That's your decision-making at work. Just about everyday, you're going have to make choices that suit your needs and affect your life. It's not always pleasant, and certainly not always easy. As a result, you get stuck not knowing what to do or how to proceed and only exacerbating the decision-making process that much further. Fret not, we all make decisions we're not proud of, yet that's the beauty of making them in the first place of helping us eliminate the wrong ones, to make the right ones. What if you could learn the science behind decision-making? What if you could understand the reasons that drive your every decision? What if you could systemize the whole process to easily help you make faster, better decisions? That's what "Faster, Better Decision-Making" will help you with: * Uncover the Core of Choices to Weight the Pros and Cons for the Best Decision. * Beat the Dreaded Decider's Block by Following the Rules of Decision-Making. * Support Better Decisions with a Tripod of Options, Actions, and Consequences. * Formulate an Approach for Autopilot Decisions through Building Predictability. * Eliminate Regrets from Bad Decisions with a Battle Plan to Come Out Victorious. ...and you can bet there's a whole lot more to be covered. So now it's decision time. Do you want to improve your decision-making skills or not? This should be an easy one, as you should already know the answer to that for still be reading this. Take a step back from the old way of how you used to make decisions, and upgrade now to make faster, better decisions today, everyday.

Download or read book The Elements of Choice written by Eric J. Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leader in decision-making research reveals how choices are designed—and why it’s so important to understand their inner workings Every time we make a choice, our minds go through an elaborate process most of us never even notice. We’re influenced by subtle aspects of the way the choice is presented that often make the difference between a good decision and a bad one. How do we overcome the common faults in our decision-making and enable better choices in any situation? The answer lies in more conscious and intentional decision design. Going well beyond the familiar concepts of nudges and defaults, The Elements of Choice offers a comprehensive, systematic guide to creating effective choice architectures, the environments in which we make decisions. The designers of decisions need to consider all the elements involved in presenting a choice: how many options to offer, how to present those options, how to account for our natural cognitive shortcuts, and much more. These levers are unappreciated and we’re often unaware of just how much they influence our reasoning every day. Eric J. Johnson is the lead researcher behind some of the most well-known and cited research on decision-making. He draws on his original studies and extensive work in business and public policy and synthesizes the latest research in the field to reveal how the structure of choices affects outcomes. We are all choice architects, for ourselves and for others. Whether you’re helping students choose the right school, helping patients pick the best health insurance plan, or deciding how to invest for your own retirement, this book provides the tools you need to guide anyone to the decision that’s right for them.

Download or read book We Can t Do It Alone written by Fred Jewell and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Can't Do It Alone: Building Influence with Simple Strategies is a book about influence, about getting things done with and through other people. It's about moving people, teams and organizations in the direction you want to go.Each chapter contains tactics that you can collect and put into your own personal tool set. The book starts with laying the foundation and making it easy for others to want to help you, moves to building relationships, motivating action, and achieving follow-through. Once you¿ve mastered these strategies, people are going to see you as a leader. The last chapter offers some additional strategies for maintaining your reputation for leadership over the long haul. These simple strategies are applicable at work, in the community, and even at home. In each of those realms, we need skills that will help us influence: ¿Bosses¿Team members¿Peers¿Clients and customers¿Partners and vendors¿Regulators and government officials¿Volunteers¿Parents¿Spouses and childrenWe Can't Do It Alone is both an engaging book to read all the way through and a useful reference to review before important meetings and discussions.

Download or read book God Forsaken written by Frederic Breton and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Devil s Feast written by M.J. Carter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative team Blake and Avery find themselves entangled in a case involving political conflicts, personal vendettas, and England’s first celebrity chef. London, 1842. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London’s newest and grandest gentleman’s club—a death the club is desperate to hush up. What he soon discovers is a web of rivalries and hatreds, both personal and political, simmering behind the club’s handsome façade. At the center is its resident genius, Alexis Soyer, “the Napoleon of food,” a chef whose culinary brilliance is matched only by his talent for self-publicity. But Avery is distracted, for where is his mentor and partner in crime Jeremiah Blake? And what if this first death is only a dress rehearsal for something far more sinister?

Download or read book What Should I Do written by John Burstein and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's very important for a child to learn how to make good decisions. In this informative new book, Slim Goodbody helps children learn the steps they should follow in making almost any decision: Stop, Think, Act, Review (STAR).

Download or read book Sport Management written by Russell Hoye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport Management: principles and applications provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management principles within sport organisations operating at the community, state, national and professional levels in club based sporting systems. It presents an international balanced view between accepted practice and what research evidence tells us about the application of a range of management principles and practices in sport. Structured in three parts it investigates: The history of the evolution of sport and the current drivers of change in the sport industry, the role of the state, non-profit and professional sectors in sport. Core management principles and their application in sport, highlighting the unique features of how sport is managed compared to other sectors of the economy. This will include discussion and insight into organisational behaviour, organisational culture, strategic planning, organisational structures, human resource management, leadership, governance, and performance management. The future management challenges facing the sport industry. Each chapter has a coherent learning structure complete with international case studies as follows: A conceptual overview of the focus for the chapter. A presentation of accepted practice supported by specific organisational examples at the community, state/provincial, national and professional level. These organisations will include examples from countries such as New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. A presentation of research findings from around the globe. A summary of guiding principles for the focus of the chapter based on a balanced view of practice and research. A section of teaching and learning resources including a reference list, lists for further reading, relevant websites, tutorial activity or study questions, potential research questions and online PowerPoint lecture slides for each chapter. It provides the foundation for introductory sport management subjects, and is ideal for first and second year students studying sport management related courses and those studying sport management within business focussed courses, human movement / physical education courses seeking an overview of sport management principles.

Download or read book Good Decision Bad Decision written by Anil K. Choudhary and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision making appears to be a simple activity but the process leading to a decision is quite complex. Unique aspect of decision making is that it is always done in advance but people weigh it in hindsight. Therefore, predicting a decision to be right or wrong at the time of decision making is always as good a guess as is the decision itself. What is required at this stage is to understand the factors that may be impacting the decision maker and then accept or reject the decision being taken then and there.On the contrary, people tend to judge a decision as good or bad after the outcome is known which, in author's view, is not fair to the decision-maker. Success of a decision is not in it being good or bad, right or wrong, but being accepted when it is taken and not after knowing the outcome. Author believes that acceptance of a decision is of far greater significance than the decision itself, as unless accepted, a decision has no relevance.People not only accept or reject decision made by others but also by self. If you thought accepting other's decision is more difficult then think again; you would be surprised that many times accepting own decision is far more difficult. Actually when others make a decision, we can debate it, criticize it, pass on judgment but in almost all cases we forget it after sometime. However, when we make a decision, we consciously or unconsciously, keep deliberating and judging it for a long time. Accepting or rejecting our own decision impacts our behaviour more than when we accept or reject decision made by others and this influences our future actions towards every new situation.An important aspect in the process is segregating decision-maker and decision-acceptor. The acceptor of the decision has to have faith in the decision-maker and be aware of the factors that the decision-maker has taken into consideration while arriving at the decision. When others are taking decision, this is much easier but when one takes decision where he is also a significantly impacted stakeholder of the decision, this becomes really difficult. In fact people tend to swing between the role of a decision-maker and decision-acceptor throughout the process.As a decision-maker, you should only worry about coming out with the most appropriate decision to meet the expected outcome using your knowledge, available information, and other such factors. As a decision-acceptor you should be focused on knowing the decision-maker and various factors that he has used to arrive at the decision. If you are convinced with that, you should accept the decision without really worrying about the outcomeThis book is an attempt to bring in awareness about some key factors that influences decision making so that the stakeholders become better acceptors of a decision while it is being taken irrespective of the outcome. Let us always remember "Decision is just a decision at the time it is made, it is neither good nor bad."

Download or read book The Nuremberg Trials written by Ann Tusa and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-02-19 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on a multiplicity of sources to recreate brilliantly the proceedings and to offer a reasoned, often profound examination of the processes that created international law.

Download or read book The Theory of Judicial Decision written by Roscoe Pound and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Justice Through Research Based Decision Making written by William M. Bowen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses whether and to what extent there are widespread injustices and inequities caused by the distribution of environmental hazards in America today.