Brilliant Decision Making

Decisions give us power to shape the life we want.

Decisions underpin everything we do. On a day-to-day basis they allow us to map out how we spend our time and, on a broader scale, they are the driving force behind all aspects of change. Being able to make confident, considered decisions is an essential skill in life and Brilliant Decision Making shows you how.

Developed over many years of building successful businesses, Robbie Steinhouse shares with you his powerful four-stage decision-making process. Whatever your situation, whatever decision you need to make, Brilliant Decision Making gives you a clear and effective approach to ensure every decision you make is the right one for you.

 

Brilliant outcomes

 

Understand the essential stages in making any  decision

Feel confident using a decision-making process

Know when its good to be decisive and better to take your time

An excellent guide to making decisions both for business and for life. Readable, practical and interesting most important of all, it works!

 

Nick Leslau , leading property entrepreneur and Channel 4 Secret Millionaire

 

 

 

(Pearson)

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Robbie Steinhouse is a successful serial entrepreneur. Over the last twenty years he has founded and built businesses in the recruitment, property and insurance sectors. He is currently head of training at NLP School Europe and is a certified NLP trainer. Robbie is an ICF certified coach and managing director of the Coaching Consultancy. Chris West is a professional writer with a background in marketing and PR. He is the co-author of The Beermat Entrepreneur and sole author of Marketing on a Beermat. He has also written crime fiction, including the award-nominated Death of a Blue Lantern, travel and other non-fiction. He is an NLP practitioner and an experienced co-counsellor.

(Pearson)

Introduction

Decide to buy this book!

The context: the apparent growth of powerlessness.  Big organizations and it turns out theyre not even very competent (financial crisis).  How do you seize back power?  Actions.  But behind every useful action is a decision: change actually starts with a decision.

Three ways of how not to do it. Tortoises are stuck in a rut and cant decide.   Hares are overdecisive, making decisions too hastily and whizzing around in random directions as a result.  Flippers oscillate between the two, interspersing periods of inactivity with periods of frenetic and ill-considered change.

All of us need simple-to-follow steps of how to make clear, well thought-through and lasting decisions that really move us forward in the direction that we want to go.  Thats what this book is about.

This book presents a simple three-stage process.

1.     Start with a quick Yes or No.

2.     Plan it out.  Moving from Want to decide through Open to decide to deciding.

3.     Put it into Action implementing the decision

Section 4 is a trouble-shooting guide what happens if you suddenly go off the idea?  Are the new obstacles deal-breakers or things you can and should sort out?

Note that throughout the text, examples will be given from real life decisions about relationships, careers, health, wealth, entrepreneurship and changes of lifestyle.

 

 

 Section 1 A quick yes or no

Come up with a quick answer to your problem.  Do this without too much conscious thought (your mind will actually have been putting a great deal of effort into the issue).  Then consider the answers to these seven questions:

1.     Will I / we.....?  Speak or write down the decision you face.

2.     What do I want to have happen?  Look beyond the decision to a clear, external outcome.

3.     Why is the decision important to me?  The secret of making decisions is to discover how it fits into your bigger goals and plans.

4.     How will I know when it has worked?  Working out what success actually looks, sounds and feels like.

5.     What are the first three steps?  Break the quick answer decision into actual practical steps.  Putting your plan into action puts your mind into gear.

6.     What could go wrong?  Uncovering potential pitfalls allows you to make your decision bullet proof.

7.      Final check. Does it seem right at three levels: head, heart and gut?  You dont need an ecstatic Yes! at this point. ...

(Pearson)