Posts Tagged ‘decision-making’

10 Things in Life That Aren’t Fair — and What to Do About Them (Part 2 of 2)

“If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”– Johnny Carson In Part 1 of this series, I discussed some of the ways that life deals us a bum hand, and some of the ways we can deal with that. In this post, I continue the list, starting with some oddnesses about factors that seem to play as big a role, if not even… Continue reading

September 2 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: consumption, decision-making, fairness, height, idea, innovation, mind, thinking | 12 comments»

10 Things in Life That Aren’t Fair – and What to Do About Them (Part 1 of 2)

"Who ever said life is fair? Where is that written? Life isn't always fair." – Grandpa, The Princess Bride Life’s not fair. Our thought processes are controlled by brains that are not always strictly rational. Social and economic forces beyond our control can toss us like plastic bags in the wind. Physical appearances play as large a role, if not larger, in the way we regard others – and the way… Continue reading

August 31 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: consumption, decision-making, fairness, mind, thinking | 15 comments»

GTD Refresh, Part 6: Decisiveness

For the last several months, I’ve been slowly rebuilding a more-or-less by-the-book GTD system. I’ve done elements of GTD for years, but things over the last year have gotten too complicated and my hope is that implementing the whole GTD system as close to Allen’s vision as possible will help me balance two quite different careers with the rest of my life.

I had intended my… Continue reading

July 16 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: decision-making, decisiveness, email, gtd, inbox-zero, work | 12 comments»

How to Make Decisions Under Pressure

Thanks to the nature of life and society, we're often forced to make our most important decisions under pressure. Whether that pressure is caused by a lack of time, emotional duress, or something else entirely, it's hardly the best state in which to make reliable decisions. Without a way to switch into an objective mindset — or at least a process to deal with decisions objectively — you could wind… Continue reading

January 5 2009 | By Joel | Tagged: decision-making, life management, pressure, research | 7 comments»

How to Make the Right Choice

Which job should you take? What car should you buy? Should you ask him to marry you? Are you ready for another baby? Is this house right for you, or should you keep looking before you make an offer? Life is full of hard choices, and the bigger they are and the more options we have, the harder they get. As it happens, our brains are fairly binary. They can react very… Continue reading

July 9 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: brain, choice, decision, decision-making, mind, strategy | 15 comments»

Don’t Bring Me Answers, Bring Me More Questions!

Don't depend on answers in uncertain times We live in a world that seems endlessly hungry for answers: preferably quick, unambiguous, definitive, once-and-for-all, simple answers. We want to be told what to do, how to solve our problems, how to live our lives to best effect. At work, bosses grind out the old chestnut, "Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions." Politicians running for office are expected to come up… Continue reading

July 4 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: asking, decision-making, decisions, problem-solving, question, solution, thinking | 6 comments»

Back to Basics: Processing

In my first installment of “Back to Basics”, I discussed the importance of your inbox – a single place for collecting all of your inputs for processing. In this installment, we’ll discuss the processing itself – how to turn inputs into action.

In principle, processing is simple. All it means is making a decision about what to do with every piece of information that enters your… Continue reading

June 27 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, decision-making, gtd, processing | 5 comments»

Where You Are Depends on How You Look at Things

One of the big differences between people who are successful in life and business and people who aren't is how they look at things, which in turn shapes how they make decisions. If you aren’t satisfied with your progress up the corporate ladder, the value of your investment portfolio or your ability to find a partner you might have more success by altering how you look at things and… Continue reading

February 4 2008 | By Susan | Tagged: decision-making, perspective, point_of_view, success | 4 comments»

You are what you choose

Always making fully conscious choices is the key to a positive lifeLiving your life consciously isn’t a once-and-for-all action. It’s a way of being that will make everything you do more vibrant, more alive, and more fun.

Destiny is made of choices. Most of what will happen to you depends on the choices you make and their consequences in the future. Careful, conscious choices produce positive outcomes; hurried, poor choices… Continue reading

August 13 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: choice, decision-making, mistake, option | 8 comments»

Don’t Just Get Organized, Stay Organized! 7 Concepts That Stick

As Professional Organizers, we don’t just get clients organized, we also teach them how to stay organized. Here are some empowering home organizing concepts that we teach people every day. Be decisive! Everything that is on your countertop or desk right now most likely represents decisions that have not been made. Clutter results from putting off these decisions for later. Your ability to get and stay organized is… Continue reading

March 13 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: clutter, decision-making, organization, planning, storage | 2 comments»

Selfish Mentoring

One of my favorite themes in the MWA coaching curriculum is something we refer to as the ‘selfish mentoring of ‘imi ola.’ ‘Imi ola is the Hawaiian value of personal vision; it literally translates to ‘seek life’ and as a business value, we use it to coach managers on how to seek their best possible lives in business. Don’t get stuck on the normally negative connotation of the word; selfishness in… Continue reading

February 15 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: business, choice, coaching, decision-making, mentoring, planning, Productivity, trust | 4 comments»

To Cognate or Metacognate – Which is Smarter?

Not exactly words you use every day, but we do apply cognition and metacognition every time we are asked a question.

Cognition is knowing something, like the answer in a test, while metacognition is knowing whether you know the answer or not. So which is more important? To know the answer or to know that you don't? Unless you’re taking a test or playing Jeopardy, metacognition is more important to success… Continue reading

February 6 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: decision-making, intelligence | 2 comments»

Focusing on What Matters (and Ignoring What Does Not)

As I look back at this week's postings on Slow Leadership, I notice that most of them were concerned with helping people stop wasting their time and energy on fruitless endeavors. Take the first post, entitled: To Succeed, First Forget About Leadership Technique. In it, I argued that belief that success—in just about any business or leadership —comes from one simple source (applying the correct "leadership technique), is both… Continue reading

October 30 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: civilized-work, decision-making, firstthingsfirst, freedom, Hamburger-Management, lifebalance, Lifehack, Management, overwork, prioritization, problem, problemsolving, technique, timemanagement, work-life, work/life-balance, working, worklife | 2 comments»

Antidotes to Hamburger Management

I've been thinking and writing quite a lot this week about Hamburger Management: the type of management approach that is based on always doing whatever is quickest, simplest and (above all) cheapest. Hamburger Managers provide the kind of leadership that is best described as: "Never mind the quality, look how fast it goes and how cheap it is." Sadly, this approach is being forced on a great many otherwise perfectly… Continue reading

October 23 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: attitude, behavior, bestpractices, business-ethics, civilization, civilized-work, competition, decision-making, effectiveness, empowerment, engagement, expectations, guideline, Hamburger-Management, innovation, integrity, leadership, lifebalance, Management, meetings, organization, performance, priorities, prioritization, slow-leadership, strategy, stress, success, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance | 4 comments»

Making Quick Choices to Manage Time Better

One aspect of life that eats into the time that we may have scheduled for other tasks is the process of decision making. Some of these decisions are small and trivial and have minimal effect on our lives and some of them are big decisions that have a bigger role to play in the larger perspective of life. Whether small or big, each of these decisions takes time and… Continue reading

October 18 2006 | By Vishal | Tagged: choice, decision-making, timemanagement | 8 comments»

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