Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
$7.95
Decisive is the Heath brothers’ most powerful—and important—book yet, offering fresh strategies and practical tools enabling us to make better choices. Because the right decision, at the right moment, can make all the difference.
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- Acquaint yourself with the four villains of decision making and how they prevent you from making the smartest choices.
- Widen your options with three strategies that create more choices rather than limit them.
- Reality-test your assumptions by considering the opposite and learn how to attain distance before deciding.
- Understand why preparing to be wrong is informative and trusting a decision-making process is beneficial.
About the Author
Chip Heath is a professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
Dan Heath is a senior fellow at Duke University’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE).
The Heath brothers are the authors of the national bestsellers Switch (2010) and Made to Stick (2007).
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