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Our decisions shape our lives. Whether at home or at work, with others or alone, our capacity to read what's going on inside and around us, and to choose what to do next can make or break a campaign, a business, a relationship or even a family holiday.
With so much going on above and below the surface, how can we decide what to say and how to act in order to steer things in the right direction? Through 20 accessible lessons, Better Decisions will take you from theory and frameworks which deepen your understanding, to real-life applications that are specific to you. The practical exercises will help you to understand your own decision-making habits, and give you new tools and techniques to enable you to judge the best way forward and take the next step.
List of contents
Introduction
How to Use This Book
01 Decisions about Decisions
01 The right to decide
02 Going with the flow
03 In the frame
04 Make or take
01-04 Toolkit
Further Learning
02 The Shape of a Decision
05 The shape of a decision
06 What?
07 So what?
08 Now what?
05-08 Toolkit
Further Learning
03 Strategizing
09 From zoology to astronomy
10 Achaeology
11 Geography
12 The parts and the whole
09-12 Toolkit
Further Learning
04 All Together Now
13 Why the group?
14 Who's in charge?
15 What groups need
16 Sealing the deal
13-16 Toolkit
Further Learning
05 Know Thyself: The Oracle at Delphi
17 Look in the mirror
18 The value of ignorance
19 There's a place for us
20 Detach yourself
17-20 Toolkit
Further Learning
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the author
Chris Grant draws on his experience of working with thousands of leaders in business, sport and elsewhere, but the lessons in this book apply as much to personal decisions as to professional ones. Chris chaired the Programme that introduced the UK’s Chip & PIN payment technology. He’s helped global industries to think about their social impact, and a national sports squad prepare for a victorious European Championship campaign. He’s coached Team GB coaches, TV Executives and (literally) rocket scientists. But to Chris, the titles are less important than the people. He’s fascinated by the common factors and approaches, which bring them success, or get in the way. Chris’s teachers have included a Buddhist nun; a psychoanalyst who was also a soldier, and the star couple of existential philosophy. All of these make appearances in Better Decisions, and the result is a book which has considerable breadth and depth to back up its accessible and practical techniques.
Summary
In 20 practical lessons Better Decisions, the latest title in the successful Build+Become series, takes the theories of how to make the best decisions and shows practical and actionable ways you can implement them in your life.
