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    • RESEARCH REPORTS ON DECISION MAKING:

    Introduction to Research Reports
    1. Decision Making Criteria
    2. Political & Public Policy Decision Making
    3. Good Judgment & Decision Making
    4. Models, Systems, Guides for Decision Making in the Literature
    5. A Model for Career Decision Making
    6. Your Personal Program to Learn Decision Making
    7. Decision Support or Business Intelligence
    8. Bad Decisions
    9. Decision Making Theories
    10. Decision Making Styles
    11. Decision Making Quotes & Articles
    12. Critical Thinking & Structured Decision Making
    13. Decision Making Tool
    14. Organization Ethical Decision Making
    15. Team Decision Making
    16. Decision Making Lesson Plans
    17. Decision Making Methods
    18. Decision Making Examples

    Introduction to Decision Making
    Research Reports

    Increase Your Earnings & Fun Out of Life!

    The Importance of Decision Making

    To increase your earnings and fun out of life, you must understand the importance of decision making. You must: "Live your life fully."

    In Brain Power - Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills (1980), Karl Albrecht says:

    "The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully."

    To become skilled in finding "choices among options" that you have found for yourself, you must understand this.

    What Is Decision Making?

    To understand the importance of decision making, you must first know what decision making is. Karl Albrecht calls it "choices among options." In Teaching Decision Making to Adolescents (1991), it is defined as "the process of making choices among competing courses of action."

    However, it should be realized that this is a very short description. For example, one day after a thunder storm my dining room ceiling started to leak onto the table. I immediately wondered whether to replace the roof or patch it - choices among options. But curiosity took me to the attic, and I soon found that the problem wasn't the roof but a condensation pan under the air conditioner blower unit that had overflowed because of algae build-up at the drain opening. So you must always be sure that the decision being made is for the correct problem and not for a symptom. The best way to do this is to use the scientific method.

    Different Decision Making Scenarios

    Political Decision Making

    In political decision making, the correct decision can make the difference between life and death because of involvement in wars, public health, and other vital decisions.

    Individual and Family Decision Making

    Choosing a mate, career, healthy living, and other important individual and family decisions depend on your decision making knowledge and experience. They can have a profound effect on your life and your family's lives.

    Managerial Decision Making and Business Decision Making

    Good decision making is required for successful managing. Today decision making is being pushed further and further down the ranks. So a manager must supervise those under him or her in the science of decision making. Click to read more about on the importance of managerial decision making.

    Group Decision Making

    Many important decisions depend on good group decision making. If all are trained in SM-14, you get unity of method and a greater chance of success.

    Medical Decision Making and Clinical Decision Making

    Here again life and health are at stake. The training of doctors and medical researchers would be improved if teaching the scientific method was started while they were still in elementary and high school.

    Military Decision Making

    Our military must continue to be the best in the world for our national safety. Members of the military at all levels are constantly involved in complex national security decisions. Standardizing on training in the SM-14 model formula for military personnel would help keep us the best in the world. The military decision making process has its special techniques like all specialties, but the basic process should still be the scientific method as expressed in SM-14.

    Good Quote on the Importance of Decision Making

    One of my favorite decision making quotes was by Nobel Laureate Herb Simon who had written the description of the importance of decision making on the page in the Decision Making Booklet titled "Problem Solving and Decision Making."

    The Decision Making Research Reports

    Decision Making Process

    My 48-page booklet contains a lot of information about the decision making process, including information on the importance of decision making, what decision making is, and many other subjects. However, the process or system of decision making is very extensive. In the following Research Reports, I present additional information to further help you.

    Making the Right Decision

    It does take time to read and study these Research Reports, but it is well worth your time to do so.

    You should make the choice to be a life-long student of problem solving and decision making. My site www.problemsolving.net will also be of value to you. Some Research Reports may not be of interest to you, but others will, so you may want to scan all of them.

    More Decision Making Research Reports Coming

    Watch this site and page for news of new Research Reports. We expect to add new ones every few months.