Prism Decision Systems

  • Email
  • RSS
  • HOME
  • THE EIGHT KEYS
    • Buy Now
    • Reader Praise for the Eight Keys
  • BLOG

05/01/2020 by Sean Brady

How to run successful virtual decision-making meetings

virtual decision-making

Two simple rules will help optimize the effectiveness of your virtual decision-making meetings.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: virtual decision-making

12/11/2018 by Sean Brady

Could ranked-choice voting help improve our democracy?

Maine’s 2018 congressional election provides tantalizing evidence that ranked choice voting could help improve our democracy.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: decision-making, group decision system

11/16/2018 by Sean Brady

Can groups make better decisions than smart individuals?

Research at MIT has identified three factors that correlate to a group’s collective intelligence.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: creative problem solving, decision-making

08/01/2017 by Sean Brady

Google identifies the five traits of high performing teams

Google has identified five traits shared by high performing teams. They have also made available their Team Effectiveness Discussion Guide as well as a tool for fostering psychological safety.

Filed Under: Consensus-building, Decision-making Tagged With: consensus, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, idea generation, innovation

02/17/2017 by Sean Brady

Top ten rules for raising kids

Parenting requires constant and sometimes excruciatingly difficult decision-making. A parent can ease this burden by adopting a set of simple, resolute beliefs.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: decision criteria, decision-making, multiple criteria

02/08/2017 by Sean Brady

Using collaborative decision techniques to make an eldercare decision

eldercare

A family’s wrenching eldercare decisions can be eased and improved using collaborative decision processes, tools and techniques.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: assumptions, decision criteria, decision-making, matrix, multiple criteria, tradeoff

11/28/2016 by Sean Brady

How to avoid group think and achieve the wisdom of the crowd

Every day in organizations, groups meet to make decisions. Here are four simple ways to help them avoid group think and achieve the wisdom of the crowd.

Filed Under: Consensus-building, Decision-making Tagged With: assumptions, biases, consensus, creative problem solving, decision-making

07/21/2016 by Sean Brady

Visionize a preferred future

Feel trapped by the circumstances or challenges you face? Need to reinvent your life? Solve a persistent problem? Renew a relationship? Visionizing is a powerful thinking technique designed to elicit transformative strategies and actions. Visionize and create your future!

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: assumptions, biases, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, mental models, visionizing

05/06/2016 by Sean Brady

What Google learned about high performing teams

Google recently devoted considerable resources to determine what makes a high-performing team. What did they discover?

Filed Under: Consensus-building, Decision-making Tagged With: consensus, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, idea generation

05/12/2014 by Sean Brady

Luck

Only sheer hubris would dismiss the role of luck – good or bad – in each of our lives.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, visionizing

Next Page »

Contact

[email protected]

Buy Now!

You Are What You Decide is now available in paperback and for all e-Readers.

Blog: recent posts

Prism Decision Systems, LLC: 25 fulfilling years

Resilience in three steps: endure, adapt & thrive

How to run successful virtual decision-making meetings

Prism deploys virtual decision-making service

How to serve ice cream to your kids and other negotiation strategies

Blog: all posts

Contact

Sean Brady
President
Prism Decision Systems, LLC
[email protected]

 

Search this website

Connect

  • Email
  • RSS

Copyright © 2023 · Prism Decision Systems, LLC · [email protected]