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03/25/2019 by Sean Brady

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

Every day we are faced with the potential for conflict. Lose-lose battles are unnecessary, if the parties have access to simple negotiation strategies.

Filed Under: Consensus-building Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, negotiation, tradeoff

02/08/2017 by Sean Brady

Using collaborative decision techniques to make an eldercare decision

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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

02/07/2017 by Sean Brady

Ben Franklin’s tradeoff tool

Ben Franklin devised an ingeniously simple tool for managing the tradeoffs inherent in any complex decision.

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

07/17/2015 by Sean Brady

How to select a college

In terms of financial investment, selecting a college is one of the more significant decisions a typical family will make. But many families are not equipped to make the decision well. This post offers a simple and concise step-by-step guide to help you navigate the college decision process confidently.

Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: cost-benefit, decision criteria, decision-making, tradeoff

04/20/2015 by Sean Brady

Improving your leadership team’s decision-making

Decision-making is a key leadership skill. But leaders rarely if ever receive decision-making training. Prism now offers hands-on training in the Eight Keys to Better Decision-making.

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

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

11/19/2013 by Sean Brady

How to: cost-benefit analysis

Completing a cost-benefit analysis takes time and effort. But it’s always wise to do one when making a weighty decision requiring a significant investment.

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

07/08/2011 by Sean Brady

How to: Completing a tradeoff analysis

There are many approaches to completing a formal analysis of trade-offs. This post will summarize two.

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

05/19/2011 by Sean Brady

How to: Multi-criteria Analysis – Part 3

This is the final of a three-part post that walks step-by-step through a multi-criteria analysis, a formal decision process you might use when making a weighty decision. At https://prismdecision.com/how-to-multi-criteria-analysis-part-3

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

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