The Dynamic Decision Maker: Five Decision Styles for Executive and Business Success

The insights offered in this book are intended to guarantee the reader a more successful career. It is written especially for managers and executives whose jobs require managing people successfully, but it is also written for anyone who must make decisions that involve other people. The authors discuss the decision styles and habits that people form and how to change decision-making habits where necessary. The models and techniques for decision making presented here have been used throughout the world in all kinds of businesses and government agencies. Decision style concepts can benefit anyone, from a new management trainee or MBA student to the CEO of a large firm.

To make it in the corporate world, managers don't just have to know what decisions to make, they have to understand how decisions are made. "The Dynamic Decision Maker" presents five identifiable styles that compose the framework for managerial decision making. The authors show managers how to: find a style that works best in a particular situation and be able to change style consciously for performance improvement and opening career opportunities; identify these decision styles from many different aspects; analyze team performance and develop teams by using the style model; and solve conflicts created by routine business transactions.