decisions
Master Indecision with These 5 Brain Hacks
Indecision is one of the most frustrating and stressful things you can face in your daily life. Trying to decide which tie to wear or whether to buy those shoes in burgundy or black can leave some people overwhelmed. It’s even worse when it comes to making bigger decisions that have more impact on your…
Read MoreAre you good at making decisions?
The skill is natural for some people while others struggle to make even the most basic decisions. While personality types can play a role in your ability to make decisions, it’s also a skill that can be learned. And it is especially important for professionals like us to develop proficiency with this skill. One reason…
Read MoreHow to Stop Overthinking Your Decisions
For many of us, the biggest problem with decision making is that we overthink it. We take much more time than needed and agonise over each option before eventually making our decision. In the worst case, we end up procrastinating indefinitely. There’s nothing wrong with weighing up your options and taking your time making the…
Read MoreHow to Make Smart Decisions When Risks are High
When you think about it, every single decision you make is, in a way, a gamble. Stepping out to cross the road, could mean you get run over by a bus, if you made a good decision based on how you have judged distance or speed of the vehicle. Deciding to take out a loan…
Read More10 Ways to Better Influence Decisions
Today’s professional is expected to work smarter and work harder. But what does working smarter and harder means? Professional practice effects how you are perceived by your peers and management: who you are, what you’ve got to offer, how viable your ideas are, and how well you present them. It is what makes people listen to you…
Read MoreOptimism Bias
Professor Bent Flyvbjerg in his research identified two main causes of misinformation in policy and management: strategic misrepresentation (or lying!) and optimism bias (appraisal optimism). Strategic misrepresentation is the planned, systematic distortion or misstatement of fact in response to incentives in the budget process. Optimism bias is the demonstrated systematic tendency for people to be overly optimistic…
Read MoreHow can you be more certain in getting decisions made?
A big challenge for technical professionals is how to get decisions, such as approval to their proposals. Along the path from technical detailed analysis and design to a strategic proposal, technical professionals can be challenged with the ‘strategic’ bit in selling the ‘story’ why the proposal is value for money and should be approved. Firstly,…
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