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Making Great Decisions in Business and Life
An easy to read book for practical decision making in the workplace.Its principle can even be applied to home life.Recommended for personal development.
Blink: The power of thinking without thinking
A powerful book that makes you consider the fallacies and strengths of your intuitive decision making. It’s easy to read and discusses intriguing research.
Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions
A systematic approach to decision making based on eight elements.It is especially helpful in guiding you to make sound, long-term decisions such as jobs, investments, etc…" Recommended for personal development.
Wharton on Making Decisions
Explains how decisions are made from different perspectives (personal, consumer, managerial and negotiator) along with suggestions for improvement.Recommended for managers.
Mastering the Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
The seven decisions in your life that create value and happiness. An inspirational yet self-challenging book. Recommended for personal development.
This drama series portrays decision-making in a very dramatic way by showing consequences from the past and in the future based on a current decision or situation.An airline flight from Australia crashes on an uncharted island in the south pacific, and the survivors find they are on no ordinary island.The two goals of the survivors are to understand who the hostile island inhabitants are, and how to get off island and back home to the USA.The story weaves an intricate tale of relationships, chance, destiny, and the supernatural.Each cliff-hanging episode leaves you on edge waiting for the next one.Watching the season box sets alleviates the tension of waiting but will consume much of your free time.
Star Trek Series - Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise
These classic sci-fi television series demonstrate different kinds of decision making in a variety of contexts.
The Next Generation is about deep space exploration on a Federation starship, Enterprise, whose purpose is to learn of other civilizations and study scientific phenomena.The fearless captain, Jean-Luc Picard, is faced with numerous decisions in each episode that often hinge on the safety and well-being of his crew, while also extending the hand of friendship for the Federation.Fortunately each story ends in success and rarely does Picard’s well calculated strategy result in failure.
Voyager, another Star Trek series and the name of the Federation starship, has a freak accident on their maiden voyage and end up 30,000 light years from home.The continuing story is their journey back towards earth; a trip initially estimated to take 70 years.Along the way they encounter new life forms and phenomena similar to the Enterprise, but the twist is they are so far from home, do they hold to Federation standards and rules of conduct?Their female leader, Captain Catherine Janeway, rarely fails to achieve necessary ends in her decision making while holding true to Federation philosophy and maintaining crew morale.She finds ways to bend where other starship captains would likely break. Sometimes they are forced to live with undesirable consequences.
Deep Space Nine is third in the Star Trek series and a significant deviation from the first two. It’s the story of a Federation space station and its full time occupants. The station’s leader, Benjamin Sisko, is an honorable man but he and his crew are willing to compromise their ethics at times in the Federation’s war against a united force called the Dominion.War is never pretty and decisions are frequently regrettable, something which the personnel of Deep Space Nine know too well.
Enterprise is the last Star Trek series.It visits the beginning of earth’s deep space exploration in the very first Enterprise starship.Similar to the original Star Trek in the 60’s with Captain James Kurt, the first Enterprise’s captain, Jonathan Archer, deals with adverse situations using his gut instinct, street smarts, and a little physical persuasion. He continually surprises his science officer, a logical and unemotional Vulcan, with the results of his tactics.
