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The Art of Critical Decision Making

By: Michael A. Roberto, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Michael A. Roberto
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Learn to approach the critical decisions in your life with a more seasoned, educated eye with this fascinating 24-lecture series that explores how individuals, groups, and organizations make effective decisions. The heart of this accessible series is a thorough examination of decision making at three key levels. First, you'll look at decisions made at the individual level, where, among the many things you'll learn is that intuition is more than just a gut instinct and, in fact, represents a powerful pattern recognition capability. Then, you'll explore decisions made at the group level, where you'll try to answer the question of whether groups are "smarter" and more capable of making critical decisions than individuals. And finally, you'll pull back to analyze organizational decision making, in which Professor Roberto demonstrates how some organizations have encouraged and reliably performed vigilant decision making in the face of risky scenarios.

Whether you're the head of a Fortune 500 company, a government agency, or an everyday household, you constantly make decisions important to you and those immediately around you. These lectures offer you a toolbox of practical knowledge and skills that you can apply to various decisions - whether large or small - in your everyday life and work. Professor Roberto's lively lectures are packed with useful anecdotes, tools, and advice designed to improve your own ability to make informed decisions. As you explore the intriguing process of making a good decision, you'll strengthen your grip on individual theories of decision making and the situations that illustrate them.

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Very organised presentation. Good range of ideas covered. PDF useful. Downside: Very usa focused examples. Would like examples from other fields, eg schools, NGOs

Great intro

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One the few books that I enjoyed every single word of it.
The subjects are Beautifully written and discussed naturally, without any conflict of interest.

Shilan

Perfect book

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Good structure, illuminated by interesting examples. And the narration was very enjoyable to listen to.

Interesting and well read

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The guy managed to make a dry subject interesting. Quite good content and many points to take away.

Good speaker.

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It truly makes me reflect on whether we can ever transcend the inherent limitations of human decision-making, given our cognitive biases, shortsightedness, and egocentrism. Especially now as we enter the age of AI. I highly recommend listening to "History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons They Teach" as a companion course after this. It’s a valuable exercise to apply what you’ve learned here to analyze the types of decision-making errors that were made in military historical contexts. I have also learned how to survive a raging grass fire.

One of the most useful courses I have listened to

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