Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life And Work
emily says:
Chip and Dan Heath present a process for making decisions called WRAP -- Widen your options, Reality-test your assumptions, Attain distance before deciding, and Prepare to be wrong. They cite numerous studies about the psychology of decision making and provide many concrete examples to demonstrate how their process helps support better decisions and avoids many of the pitfalls of decision making.At the beginning of the book I was quite skeptical, especially because it seemed like ever...ything they were citing and all their examples were studies done on men, and I was left wondering whether they applied to women as well, or whether in fact women make decisions differently than men. They do have plenty of examples from women later on, but I still have questions. After all, any study that looks at decisions made by leaders of large corporations is naturally going to be studying more decisions made by men than women, since the majority of such leaders are men. In fact, I have read about studies showing that women do have a different leadership style from men, including being less overconfident and less risk prone, both of which are characteristics related to decision making.That said, many of their tips seem useful and as a female leader I certainly make no claims that all of my decisions are thoughtful and avoid all the pitfalls they mention. I do plan to pay more attention to my decision making process as a result of reading this book.One thing I particularly appreciated and found useful was their acknowledgement that ultimately a decision IS about emotion -- but not the short-term emotion that we can experience with the rush of a moment. Rather, it is about the long-term emotion of being aligned with our values and priorities. Ultimately the best decisions will the the one's that are aligned with those values, whether personal or organizational.
dkv says:
There's not a lot new in Decisive. If you've read Thinking Fast and Slow, or much LessWrong, then the studies described in Decisive will all be familiar. What makes this book stand out is the concrete advice for decision making.The first chapter lays out the outline for the entire book: there are four main ways that decisions can go wrong. If you can avoid narrow framing of options, confirmation bias in information gathering, short term emotional thinking, and overconfidence, then you can make good decisions. The rest of the book is full of concrete ways to do this and lots of stories of people who have.I found the examples pretty helpful for coming up with ways to apply the information in the book.robby says:
Very good book with a dense amount of tips to use in making better choices. Some of the helpful tips that stuck out:10-10-10 When struggling to make a decision, think about how you will feel about it 10 minutes from now, 10 months from now, 10 years from now. It's oh so easy to find short term excuses. Thinking in the 10-10-10 framework forces you to think past those short term excuses. What would you best friend tell you to do? To get people to choose between A and B ... Think about what needs to happen to make A the right choice and what needs to happen to make B the right choice.OochI like the book enough to consider re-reading it again when I'm in a different time frame. There is some good advice here that is applicable to most everyone's life (maybe not my 8.5 month daughter).MoreLess
Chip and Dan Heath present a process for making decisions called WRAP -- Widen your options, Reality-test your assumptions, Attain distance before deciding, and Prepare to be wrong. They cite numerous studies about the psychology of decision making and provide many concrete examples to demonstrate how their process helps support better decisions and avoids many of the pitfalls of decision making.At the beginning of the book I was quite skeptical, especially because it seemed like ever...ything they were citing and all their examples were studies done on men, and I was left wondering whether they applied to women as well, or whether in fact women make decisions differently than men. They do have plenty of examples from women later on, but I still have questions. After all, any study that looks at decisions made by leaders of large corporations is naturally going to be studying more decisions made by men than women, since the majority of such leaders are men. In fact, I have read about studies showing that women do have a different leadership style from men, including being less overconfident and less risk prone, both of which are characteristics related to decision making.That said, many of their tips seem useful and as a female leader I certainly make no claims that all of my decisions are thoughtful and avoid all the pitfalls they mention. I do plan to pay more attention to my decision making process as a result of reading this book.One thing I particularly appreciated and found useful was their acknowledgement that ultimately a decision IS about emotion -- but not the short-term emotion that we can experience with the rush of a moment. Rather, it is about the long-term emotion of being aligned with our values and priorities. Ultimately the best decisions will the the one's that are aligned with those values, whether personal or organizational.
dkv says:
There's not a lot new in Decisive. If you've read Thinking Fast and Slow, or much LessWrong, then the studies described in Decisive will all be familiar. What makes this book stand out is the concrete advice for decision making.The first chapter lays out the outline for the entire book: there are four main ways that decisions can go wrong. If you can avoid narrow framing of options, confirmation bias in information gathering, short term emotional thinking, and overconfidence, then you can make good decisions. The rest of the book is full of concrete ways to do this and lots of stories of people who have.I found the examples pretty helpful for coming up with ways to apply the information in the book.robby says:
Very good book with a dense amount of tips to use in making better choices. Some of the helpful tips that stuck out:10-10-10 When struggling to make a decision, think about how you will feel about it 10 minutes from now, 10 months from now, 10 years from now. It's oh so easy to find short term excuses. Thinking in the 10-10-10 framework forces you to think past those short term excuses. What would you best friend tell you to do? To get people to choose between A and B ... Think about what needs to happen to make A the right choice and what needs to happen to make B the right choice.OochI like the book enough to consider re-reading it again when I'm in a different time frame. There is some good advice here that is applicable to most everyone's life (maybe not my 8.5 month daughter).MoreLess
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