Archive for the Tag 'inability to make decisions'

The Ten Best Decision Making Books of All Time

The Ten Best Business Decision Making Books Ever Written
Gaining insight into how the editors of AskTheManager.com chose the Ten Best Decision Making Books Ever can itself be a lesson in decision making. While the list of qualified books on this subject is quite long, we decided early on to exclude any and all that read [...]

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The Death of Data-Based Decision Making

Why Does My Industry Refuse to Use Data?
True story – of course, whenever anyone says or writes this it generally means that everything else they’ve ever told you is BS – anyway, true story: a highly compensated colleague wrote to a group of fellow highly compensated colleagues and asked “does anyone have any data on [...]

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Indecision and Analysis Paralysis

I received the following question from a reader this week:
“My manager is a constant procrastinator, who seems to always fail at making decisions. It’s not that he makes bad decisions, he simply won’t ever make any decision. Whenever I approach him with a suggestion, he always wants me to go back and get more data. [...]

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