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About Decision Models Simplified
Whether you are a manager, a founder or an analyst, this book gives you the methods to decide well under pressure.
It covers decision making from framing the choice to defending it, one framework per chapter, each with a diagram, a worked example and a worksheet.
It follows the same method as every Business in Brief book, so each title makes the others more useful.
“Whenever Toyota defines a specification, it is establishing a hypothesis that is then tested through action.”H. Kent Bowen and Steven Spear, 1999 · Consulting Management Simplified, ch. 35
“Every time you see a 50-page work plan that stretches out to three months, you know it’s wrong.”Charles Conn, 2019 · Consulting Management Simplified, ch. 3
“A good decision executed well often beats a brilliant one implemented poorly.”Paul Rogers and Marcia Blenko, 2006 · Consulting Management Simplified, ch. 31
“All products eventually become either cash cows or pets.”Bruce Henderson, 1970 · Consulting Management Simplified, ch. 17
Table of contents 
- Part 1: Frame the Decision
- What Makes a Decision Hard
- Framing the Real Question
- One-Way and Two-Way Doors
- Who Decides: RAPID and RACI
- Setting Decision Criteria
- Never Choose Between Only Two Options
- Brainstorming With Structure
- Issue Trees for Decisions
- Screening Options Fast
- The Status Quo as an Option
- Pros and Cons, Done Properly
- The Weighted Decision Matrix
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- The Eisenhower Matrix
- Pairwise Comparison and AHP
- Decision Trees
- Expected Value
- Scenario Planning
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Real Options: Keeping Doors Open
- The Biases That Wreck Decisions
- Confirmation Bias and the Devil's Advocate
- Sunk Costs and Loss Aversion
- The Pre-Mortem
- Groupthink and How to Break It
- The OODA Loop
- Cynefin: Matching the Method to the Situation
- Consensus, Consent or Command
- The Delphi Method
- Deciding Under Time Pressure
- The Decision Memo
- Explaining the Decision So People Back It
- Decision Logs and Reviews
- Knowing When to Revisit a Decision
- Your Personal Decision Toolkit
Part 2: Generate Options
Part 3: Compare the Options
Part 4: Deal With Uncertainty
Part 5: Avoid the Traps
Part 6: Decide Fast and in Groups
Part 7: Make It Stick
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