Patrick Gould

Prudent Decision Making in an Imprudent World (eBook, PDF)

Better Decisions at Home and Work

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A practical guide to making better decisions in all aspects of life, based on extensive research and a wide range of historic and current examples.

Combining clearly communicated research-based principles, a wealth of practical advice, and dozens of historic and contemporary examples of decision making (good and bad), Patrick Gould's Prudent Decision Making in an Imprudent World: Better Decisions at Home and Work gives readers a fresh new way to look at the way we make choices.

What makes Gould's book both authoritative and compelling is its distinctive foundation-prospect theory-derived from Amos Tversky and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's landmark research on "neuro-economic" decision making. Through the prism of prospect theory-which explains why people make conservative decisions in some instances and reckless decisions in others-Gould provides practical pathways to sound, timely judgments about relationships, family matters, careers, finances, and more. Time and again, throughout this concise but richly rewarding book, Gould demonstrates that understanding how and why people make choices is the first step toward making the best possible choices for ourselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313372322
• Artikelnr.: 43075394

Autorenporträt

Patrick F. Gould is a retired U. S. Marine Corps officer and combat veteran who was an educational researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the past ten years. He is the founder of Major Decision Consulting, LLC, in Middleton, WI.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Prudent Decision Maker Living Among
Irrational Conservatives 2. Prudent Decision Makers Seek a Balanced
Perspective 3. Prudent Decision Makers Are Self-disciplined 4. Prudent
Decision Makers Are Not All Former Valedictorians 5. Prudent Decision
Makers Are Students of History 6. Prudent Decision Makers Never Violate the
Principle of Security 7. Prudent Decision Makers Are Cultural Contrarians
8. Prudent Decision Makers Seek Informational Clarity and Relevance 9.
Prudent Decision Makers Never Sweat the Small Stuff 10. Prudent Decision
Makers Possess Humility and Temperance 11. Prudent Decision Makers
Understand That No Decision Is Still a Decision 12. Prudent Decision Makers
Are Creative 13. Prudent Decision Making in Education 14. Prudent Decision
Makers Know That While Money Does Not Buy Happiness, Neither Does Happiness
Buy Money 15. Prudent Decision Makers Learn the Cost of Every Free Lunch
16. Semper Paratus: The Always-Ready, Financially Prudent Decision Maker
17. Prudent Decision Makers Are Epistemological Optimists Notes Index