Decision Making

How to Make Decisions

Making the Best Possible Choices

How Good Is Your Decision Making?

The Vroom-Yetton-Jago Decision Model

Deciding How to Decide

The Kepner-Tregoe Matrix

Making Unbiased, Risk-Assessed Decisions

OODA Loops

Understanding the Decision Cycle

The TDODAR Decision Model

Considering Your Options Under Pressure

The Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) Process

Making Good Decisions Under Pressure

Decision Matrix Analysis

Making a Decision by Weighing Up Different Factors

Paired Comparison Analysis

Working Out Relative Importances

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Choosing By Weighing Up Many Subjective Factors

Conjoint Analysis

Measuring Buyer Preferences

Pareto Analysis

Choosing the Most Important Changes to Make

Decision Tree Analysis

Choosing by Projecting "Expected Outcomes"

The Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM)

Choosing the Best Strategic Way Forward

The Futures Wheel

Identifying Future Consequences

Go/No-Go Decisions

Deciding Whether to Go Ahead

TELOS

Conducting a Thorough Feasibility Study

Risk Analysis and Risk Management

Evaluating and Managing Risks

Risk Impact/Probability Chart

Learning to Prioritize Risks

Quantitative Pros and Cons

Weigh up Decisions With a Simple Approach

Force Field Analysis

Analyzing the Pressures For and Against Change

"What If" Analysis

Making Decisions by Exploring Scenarios

Impact Analysis

Identifying the Full Consequences of Change

Business Experiments

Taking Intelligent Risks

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Deciding, Quantitatively, Whether to go Ahead

Break-Even Analysis

Determining When a Product Becomes Profitable

Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

Deciding Whether to Invest

Cash Flow Forecasting

Forecasting the Impact of a Financial Decision

Avoiding Psychological Bias in Decision Making

How to Make Objective Decisions

The Ladder of Inference

How to Avoid Jumping to Conclusions

Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Making the Best Choice with the Information Available

"Cautious" or "Courageous"?

Understand Your Risk Preference, and Make Better Decisions

Critical Thinking

Developing the Right Mindset and Skills

Blindspot Analysis

Avoiding Common "Fatal Flaws" in Decision Making

Reactive Decision Making

Making Good Decisions Under Pressure

Linear Programming

Optimizing Your Limited Resources

Monte Carlo Analysis

Bringing Uncertainty and Risk Into Forecasting

ORAPAPA

A Checklist for Making Better Decisions

10 Common Decision-Making Mistakes

Avoiding the Pitfalls

The Foursquare Protocol

Learning to Manage Ethical Decisions

What Are Your Values?

Deciding What's Most Important in Life

Spiral Dynamics

Understanding How People's Values May Affect Their Decision Making

The Hoy-Tarter Model of Decision Making

Deciding When to Involve Others in Decisions

Multi-Voting

Choosing Fairly Between Many Options

The Modified Borda Count

Achieving Consensus About Which Options to Pursue

Organizing Team Decision Making

Reaching Consensus for Better Decisions

The Stepladder Technique

Making Better Group Decisions

Avoiding Groupthink

Avoiding Sometimes-Fatal Flaws in Group Decision Making

Hartnett's CODM Model

Developing Solutions Collectively

Bain's RAPID® Framework

Assigning Roles to Avoid Stalemate

The Delphi Method

Achieving Consensus Among Experts