Quotes About Decision-making

CHOOSING WELL IS DIFFICULT, AND MOST DECISIONS HAVE SEVERAL different dimensions.

Most good decisions will involve these steps: 1. Figure out your goal or goals. 2. Evaluate the importance of each goal. 3. Array the options. 4. Evaluate how likely each of the options is to meet your goals. 5. Pick the winning option. 6. Later use the consequences of your choice to modify your goals, the importance you assign to them, and the way you evaluate future possibilities.

Whereas maximizers might do better objectively than satisficers, they tend to do worse subjectively.

information costs," is not the way to maximize one's investment. The true maximizer would determine just how much information seeking was the amount needed to lead to a very good decision.

If people think about options in terms of their features rather than as a whole, different options may rank as second best (or even best) with respect to each individual feature.

Taking care of our own "wants" and focusing on what we "want" to do does not strike me as a solution to the problem of too much choice. It is precisely so that we can, each of us, focus on our own wants that all of these choices emerged in the first place.

people tend to avoid taking risks—they are "risk averse"—when they are deciding among potential gains, potential positive outcomes.

So by using rules, presumptions, standards, and routines to constrain ourselves and limit the decisions we face, we can make life more manageable, which gives us more time to devote ourselves to other people and to the decisions that we can't or don't want to avoid.

So, once again, satisficing appears the better way to maintain one's autonomy in the face of an overwhelming array of choices.

The rightness of things is generally revealed in retrospect, and you're unlikely to know in advance what is right and wrong in a story that has not yet been written.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.

responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior.

In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

captain then called to the signalman, "Signal that ship: We are on a collision course, advise you change

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger. (p. 62)

I can't go to my company's annual convention vs. I choose not to go to convention. People just don't want to hear what I have to say vs. I will create an effective presentation that people will want to hear. I can't think of anyone to talk to vs. I choose to find 10 new people to talk to about my business. If only I had more time to prospect vs. I will make more time for prospecting. I have to go to work vs. I choose to work. A

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

A menudo «lo bueno» es enemigo de «lo mejor».

The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility. Reactive vs. Proactive Voice There's nothing I can do vs. Let's look at our alternatives That's just the way I am vs. I can choose a different approach He makes me so mad vs. I control my own feelings They won't allow that vs. I can create an effective presentation I have to do that vs. I will choose an appropriate response I can't vs. I choose I must vs. I prefer If only vs. I will

cuando examinamos este don en el contexto de la autoadministración efectiva, comprendemos que por lo general no es el esfuerzo dramático, visible, que se realiza hasta el límite de nuestras fuerzas una vez en la vida, el que procura un éxito duradero. El poder se adquiere aprendiendo a usar ese gran don en las decisiones que tomamos día tras día.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.