The Art of Critical Decision Making

By: Michael A. Roberto, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Michael A. Roberto

Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

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I feel like have learned so much.

I feel so much smarter. I listen to this book on my commute. Worth the money spent.

An Important Read for Critcal Decision Making

The work satisfies a curious mind's processes for finding meaning in thinking and critical decision making.

Great Course - Unexpected Learning and More

I thoroughly enjoyed this course and plan to listen to it again and again. I did not expect the insight and knowledge I received on past, historical events.

Professor Roberto does a great job keeping one's interest and he provides useful thoughts and tools on tackling and excelling in the critical decision making process.

I look forward to purchasing and reading his books.

Better Decision Making found here.

Right To the point, informative and in-depth detail within real life cases. Advanced Scholarship with easy to grip handles.
Plays well at 1.25, 1.5, even 2 X SPEED.
Yet, you will want to slow down to catch all of the many excellent truths.
Scott Craig
Founder “Better Decisions” LinkedIn group

Very insightful!

The depths of this program going into issues of national significance outline how difficult clear and precise communication can be even if I highest levels. Or importantly it outlines various processes used in order to correct communication deficiencies.

excellent

extremely enlightening. would recommend it to all listeners. info that we all need very much

one of harvard's princple in motion.

Unique learning appoarch. Adds great insight to concepts that arent easily understood. Concepts discussed are quite grand in nature.

So much good info I have to listen to this book again

It is amazing to know how easy it is to learn from previous events in history and the devotion making process that was used to either successfully complete a mission or a complete catastrophe. I enjoy the process of teaching used in this book which focuses on case studies. They engage you in the learning process and make you think about the different decisions that you would make as a leader.
We are always making decisions on a daily basis and this book helps you with the process of making the best decisions and having the right protocols to succeed as a leader or as a team player.

I highly recommend this book.

Great book for business managers

This book deals with the complex nature of decision making in the business world. It goes through a variety of cases and illustrates the flaws in organization that lead to, at times, disastrous results. I was wary of how a class would translate into an audiobook but at least for this topic it works quite well.

An smart and engaging book

We all spend our lives making decisions and this book highlights the good and bad in how we do it while also offering guidance on better practices.