This practical resource shows business professionals how to improve their decision-making skills and enhance their ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with co-workers and clients. The book covers a wide range of topics — identifying tastes and preferences, personal skill assessment, cost-benefit analysis, risk and uncertainty, multi-tasking, human resource management, time constraints, data collection, and more — to help busy professionals make the most effective use of time and energy.

Written by a top business scholar, and designed to bridge the social and decision sciences, Developing Decision-Making Skills for Business will also be useful in the study of organizational behavior and business psychology.

Selected Contents:
PART I: WANTS, ABILITIES, AND GOALS
1. Tastes, Preferences, Wants, and Values
2. Assessing Your Resources
3. Choosing Goals and Criteria of Success
PART II: INTRODUCTION TO EVALUATIVE THINKING
4. Evaluating Simple Alternatives
5. Weighing Present Versus Future Benefits (and Costs)
6. How To Think About Cost
7. Allowing For Uncertainty
8. Dealing With Risks
9. Reconciling Multiple Goals
PART III: GETTING USEFUL IDEAS AND KNOWLEDGE
10. Getting and Eliminating Ideas
11. Experts, Expert Systems, and Libraries
12. Using Scientific Discipline To Obtain Information
13. Assessing Consequences and Likelihoods
PART IV: WORKING WITH INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
14. Pitfalls That Entrap Our Thinking
15. My Favorite Worst Sources of Errors
16. Good Judgment
17. Self-Discipline and Habits of Thought
18. Dealing With People, and Managing Them

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