11/04/2009
by Angela Wilson
November is recipe month at Pop Syndicate – and there is no better recipe for success than learning how to make the right decision. This unique and uniquely entertaining book will show you how to use the principles of good decision-making to make the most of all aspects of your life – your personal relationships, your health and happiness, and your career.
The single most important thing you can learn in life is how to make good decisions. Most self-help books focus on one particular aspect of improving your life – how to advance in business, how to make the most of your personal relationships, how to help yourself become a more accomplished and confident person. Each of these aspects of your life requires you to be able to make good decisions. The principles involved in making good decisions about your career, personal relations, or self-improvement are the same in each environment, and they are incorporated in a branch of operations research called decision theory.
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Decision-making is like swimming or riding a bicycle – you have to practice doing it in order to learn how to do it. Life gives you feedback on your decisions – but sometimes the feedback takes years before you get it. This book gives you instant feedback on your decision-making ability by providing entertaining interactive quizzes which present you with a scenario requiring a decision, and three possible choices. You make your decision, turn the page, and read the analysis – and the scores – of each of the possible decisions.
These quizzes cover all aspects of life – business, health, personal relationships, self-improvement. A stellar cast of characters and organizations has been recruited to participate in these quizzes: people to whom you are close (your family, your boss, your co-workers, your friends), great names from history (Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Edison – to name just a few), and organizations which have shaped the commercial landscape of the United States and the world (Microsoft, General Motors, Intel, IBM – and many others). What better way to learn how to make decisions than by actually making decisions which will likely confront you – as well as the critical decisions which confronted the men, women, and organizations who shaped the world?
See how good a decision-maker you are. Go to rightdecision.wordpress.com and click on The Quizzes. You’ll get a feel for the book – and you might learn a thing or two about making good decisions in the process.
Posted by GV on 11/09/2009, 02:12 PM
Hi Angela, full disclosure..I work for McGraw-Hill and we published this book. Thanks for writing such a glowing review of this book. I just wanted to alert you about a book giveaway that the author is doing on rightdecision.wordpress.com and also we have posted an free excerpt here http://ow.ly/AOdb