Decision Making Essentials You Always Wanted to Know (Self-Learning Management Series) Paperback – December 3, 2020

The media could not be loaded. This book is amazing! I am in a newer leadership position at work and have applied the techniques in this book to everything I do now.It is easy to read and follow. Grab a highlighter and page markers to help you refer back to certain pages.

In my business roles, I am constantly weighing options for decision input and have read a lot on this subject. The author has written a concise but informative book on the various decision-making processes, techniques, and considerations for quantitative and qualitative decision situations. The questions following the chapters and the examples are helpful for reinforcing the material. The author also included essential material on biases and interpretive issues that can skew decision-making. Additionally, frank discussion of decision-making technique weaknesses and unsuitability for certain problems will be helpful for developing these skills. The author used a wide range of applications and illustrations and practical implementations such as negotiation strategies. I highly recommend the book for those who want one source to become familiar with a wide variety of decision-making techniques.

Decision Making Essentials is a well-researched and comprehensive primer of the fundamentals and analyses of the decision making process. Mark Koscinski has masterfully distilled the literature and our current understanding of the mechanics of the process and more importantly outlines how to avoid falling prey to implicit biases and other pitfalls of making bad decisions.The author outlines how to incorporate sufficient data, employ checks and balances and analyze available data to improve the process leading to making decisions. This info is critical, not just in business and corporate settings where large investment decisions are made, but also in everyday settings where we make a myriad of decisions each day, with profound impact on our lives.Some of the figures cited in this publication bear more description for readers not familiar with technical aspects of the material; that said, the concepts are well-presented. This publication is a great addition to the prevailing literature!

The Self-Learning Management Series aims to educate those new to the responsibilities of management, likely coming from other fields. This book does a yeoman’s job at providing exposure to foundational concepts about decision making in business. It’s like a textbook, except a bit briefer and a bit more accessible (in other words, less academic). Koscinski, a professor of business, summarizes current thought about decision-making.Helpfully, Koscinski keeps current with the state of thought by mixing Nobel prizewinners with age-old ideas. This book enables those, like me, who did not receive a business education to quickly learn how to succeed at management. This brief summary covers many topics, like negotiation, risk, methods, and computations.The biggest weakness of this work is that it is so, well, vanilla. It does not argue any new principle or theory, nor does it attempt to be more comprehensive than competing books. Instead, it sits, relatively undefined, in the middle. Also, many of the charts use abbreviations that are undefined; they would benefit from some elaboration and captions.Overall, I am confident that this book, like many in this series, will serve its intended purpose of providing fundamental business education to those practicing management from another profession. However, for high-fliers and the curious, this book will just whet the tastebuds but leave deeper questions unanswered.

Koscinski provides a well-organized textbook on decision-making from both scientific and practical standpoints. There are real world examples that go along with the science of decision-making. I aim to make informed decisions on important topics, and I was looking for a way to better understand the science of decisions. After reading this book, I really wish I had learned this science during my MBA studies because decision-making is a leadership process that ties many disciplines together. Koscinski does this seamlessly, and I learned quite a bit. In addition, what I learned is useful and can be applied to my daily interactions and decision-making opportunities.

This was an ebook from the Early Reviewers selection. The format of the ebook made it such that you had to page from the beginning each time you resumed reading. The author provides a discussion of various methods and strategies for decision-making. He also covers some statistics, sensitivity analysis, and negotiation strategy. Some of the decision methods are variations on others and are many are somewhat intuitive. It is nice information and is compiled together for easy reference but I am unclear on how likely I am to formally use this information. We naturally use some methods that are best suited to the situation, level of complexity, risk, and importance of the decision. I think it is unlikely that the information in the book will have any impact on my daily decision making but it was somewhat interesting.

Decision making topics which required to any person for professional to student to improve their quality of goal .1. Always refer the tables and figures for any statistical needs and understanding2. Concepts are explained very satisfactory and explanatory3. This book is for the students to Professional who deals with decision making and understanding of the concepts and methods.4. Mathematics calculation required and the process involved are explained clearly and self explanatory.5. this book can be a good reference for future reference.I would recommend to anyone who require Decision making skills and self learning .

In small/medium/corporate companies, decision making is everything! A good decision can break records! thus this book has crucial topics to learn about it.

I am currently reading the book and it gives absolute insights into how to increase your decision making power. A must have for everyone. Although I am learning more about probable situation but this is really helpful for those struggling in making the right choice for them.

The binding of the book is not proper. Pages are starting to come out already. Content is good.