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- Most people fail to make optimum decisions,
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The old "expereince & judgment" methods are inadequate,
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Decision-makers need to use a structured process!
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These striking conclusions are based on real-life experiments conducted by renowned behavioral scientists such as Khaneman, Tversky (Stanford),
Dan Ariely (MIT-Sloan), and many others......................
True no one knowingly makes a “bad” decision. Even a person with no training in
decision-making believes that he/she made the best possible decision. But
we often hear phrases such as, “we made a good decision”, “it was a bad
decision”, etc. Note that the terms “good” and “bad” are attached to the
past tense. This is because we have to wait for the outcome before we can
pronounce success or failure. At the time we make a decision, there is no
way of saying if we made a good decision!
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- Data & Information
(problem domain)
- Context Information
- Creative options
- Solution technique used, and
- Expertise of the
decision-maker
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And the outcome will depend on the following: |
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- Appropriate Timing
- Adequate Resource
- Commitment to Execution, and
- Changing Circumstances/Environment
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Book
by Dr. Errol Wirasinghe,should be in your “must-read” list of books. It lays out the fundamentals of
decision-making, and shows how you can consistently make high-quality
decisions. continue... |
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$100.00 value gift certificate Autographed copy 10% discount.
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Ideally we recommend our one-day live training course delivered personally by Dr.
Wirasinghe. It give the students the opportunity to get the best results.
But if you have time constraints, you can take our On-line training
course. This course includes voice narratives to help clarify the written
text. continue... |
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The
XpertUS decision-making software is powerful, yet easy to use. It
contains several modules that permit the user to test the sensitivity of
a decision to the various criteria. Consolidation of group decisions is a
breeze, with XpertUS. continue...
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The
latest addition to our portfolio of Products & Services is our
E-Learning Course. This contains voice narrations to guide the students.
You can take this course in your own time, at your home! continue... |
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Latest News |
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Univ. of Houston {Fuutre Studies MBA}; Feb. 17th
Presentation to SW. Houston Rotarians; Feb. 18th
Presentation to NAAAHR; Feb. 26th
Technip Full-day Seminar; Mar. 26th
Presentation to Houston Org. Dev. Group; Apr. 01st
Pfizer Mexico Seminars; Apr.6-9th
Univ. of Calgary, Canada; full-day seminar; April 24th
Project Executive Group; May 13,14,15th
Univ. of Houston [Chinese Delegation]; full-day; May 20th
The Methodist Hospital System; Jun 18; 19; 24th
Multi-City Training In Romania; Sep 4-17th
Klein Indep. School Dist.; full-day seminar; Aug. 29th
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Soc. of Petroleum Eng. Disting. Lecture Prog; Sep. 25th
Univentures, Mexico City; Seminar Series; Oct. 13-16th
PMI-Phoenix, AZ, Presentations - Feb-16-18,th2010
Technip, USA; full-day seminar - Dec. 10th |
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Video Podcasting |
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Presenter
Errol Wirasinghe, PhD |
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Felix Spizale | General Manager - Texaco Pipeline LLC
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Dr.
Wirasinghe’s book, The Art of Making Decisions, is a refreshingly new
approach to decision-making. The seven-step method is an excellent road map
for a thought process that will result in the best decision possible with
the information available. continue... |
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| Quotes
When dealing with people you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotions.
- Dale Carnegie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
- Lee Iacocca; Chairman/CEO, Chrysler Corp - US Presidential Candidate
When you are green, you are growing; when you are ripe, you are rotting.
- Ray Kroc; Founder of McDonalds
You see things, and ask—why? I dream things and ask - why not?
- George Bernard Shaw
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius
The perfect bureaucrat is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Brooks Atkinson
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.
- John Abrams
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990) |
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