Decision Making Booklet Contents



The Big Picture

Problem Solving and Decision Making
  The Importance and Need for Learning and Teaching a Complete Model and Method

Decision Making Process
  Decision makers should understand the stage principle of decision making and problem solving
  The value of a model stage and step method
  Critical thinking and decision making
  Political, foreign policy, public policy, and government decision making
  Management, business, organizational, corporate decision making

The System of Problem Solving and Decision Making
  Importance of problem solving and decision making
  What’s going on in teaching decision making
  The major tools of decision making

Intuitive Decision Making
  Decision making skills
  Intuitive base

A Short Model Formula for Decision Making

Full Model Formula for the Complete Method of Creative Decision Making – SM-14

Specific Individual “Sciences” of Features of Decision Making


The Best Decision Making Process Ever Developed

 Stage 1 Curious Observation as applied to decision making
 Stage 2 Is There a Problem? as applied to decision making
 Stage 3 Goals and Planning as applied to decision making
 Stage 4 Search, Explore, and Gather the Evidence as applied to decision making
 Stage 5 Generate Creative and Logical Solutions as applied to decision making
 Stage 6 Evaluate the Evidence as applied to decision making
 Stage 7 Make the Educated Guess (Hypothesis) as applied to decision making
 Stage 8 Challenge the Hypothesis as applied to decision making
 Stage 9 Reach a Conclusion as applied to decision making
 Stage 10 Suspend Judgment as applied to decision making
 Stage 11 Take Action as applied to decision making
Supporting Ingredient 12
Creative, Non-logical, Logical, and Technical Methods for decisions
Supporting Ingredient 13
Procedural Principles and Theories for decisions
Supporting Ingredient 14
Attributes and Thinking Skills for decisions

OTHER IMPORTANT PAGES:
  Group or Team Decision Making
  Managerial Decision Making
  Behavior Decision Making Theory
  Accounting for Risks Under Uncertainty
  Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Forecasting & Predicting
  Techniques & Strategies
  Opportunities to Use my Non-copyrighted Material
  Bibliography
  Your Guide & Worksheet