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02/23/2015 by Sean Brady

Review of “Eight Keys to Better Decision-making”

“While books like Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow bring theoretical ideas to a mass audience … You Are What You Decide takes a big step towards real-world decision-making showing how anyone can improve their decision-making by adopting a few simple behaviors.”
– Andrew Tait, Chief Technology Officer, Decision Mechanics

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Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: assumptions, biases, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, idea generation, implementation, innovation, mental models, tradeoff, visionizing

07/17/2014 by Sean Brady

Make better decisions now

“You Are What You Decide is a concise book that distills complex ideas into a straightforward, highly readable framework.”
– Sherm Bodner, President and Publisher, Gannett Central New York Media

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Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: assumptions, biases, cost-benefit, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision criteria, decision-making, innovation, mental models, multiple criteria, risk-taking, tradeoff, visionizing, You Are What You Decide

07/02/2014 by Sean Brady

Readers respond to the Eight Keys: the Bostroms buy a car

“I found Sean Brady’s You Are What You Decide to be both useful and insightful…This book is an easy and enjoyable read that is packed full of practical ways to make better decisions.
– Matthew J. Salanger, President & CEO, United Health Services

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Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: decision criteria, decision-making, multiple criteria

05/16/2014 by Sean Brady

Gannett papers feature Prism and the Eight Keys

You Are What You Decide … is a remarkably insightful and useful book that provides a depth and grounding for your own personal and professional decision-making.
– John Sipple, Associate Professor, Cornell University

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Filed Under: News, You Are What You Decide Tagged With: creative problem solving, decision-making

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

11/01/2012 by Sean Brady

The planning fallacy and optimism bias

Are you considering a major building project? An addition to your home? An information technology overhaul for your business? If so, be acutely aware of the planning fallacy — and try to avoid its pitfalls. Optimism bias may well be the most significant of all cognitive biases. Read on at https://prismdecision.com/the-planning-fallacy-and-optimism-bias

Filed Under: Biases & Fallacies Tagged With: assumptions, biases, decision criteria, decision-making, fallacies

09/27/2012 by Sean Brady

Haiti, Camus, the Surgeon

Albert Camus’ The Plague and a surgeon’s decision to drop everything and go to Haiti.

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

03/08/2012 by Sean Brady

Susan Arbetter interviews Sean Brady re: NYS open data initiative

Click on the play button below to listen to the podcast of the March 8, 2012 interview on The Capitol Pressroom where Susan Arbetter discusses an open letter from Sean Brady and Cornell professor John Sipple to Andrew Cuomo advocating that the governor support a New York State government open data initiative. The letter appeared […]

Filed Under: New York State open data Tagged With: agile, data, data.gov, databases, decision-making, iPad, iPhone, linked data, machine readable data, New York open data, open data, open data portal, open linked standards

01/09/2012 by Sean Brady

Personal transformation and New Year’s resolutions

This post describes seven strategies for maintaining your will power and achieving personal transformation – or at least your New Year’s resolution!

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, implementation

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