• Police Leadership: Organizational and Managerial Decision Making Process (2nd Edition)

    Police organizations are much more accountable to their publics than ever before. Police Leadership: Organizational and Managerial Decision Making Process, 2/e examines why and how decisions are made and what can be done to direct current and future law enforcement leaders to rethink and adjust their decision making processes to keep up with the demands of our constantly changing society. The text discusses how police organizations function and respond based on the type of leadership and driving policies present in police organizations, and provides ideas about the best ways of dealing with ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0132682966
    • ASIN: 0132682966
    • ISBN: 0132682966
    • Manufacturer: Pearson

  • The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands

    Are you living with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule and aching with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul? Lysa TerKeurst is learning that there is a big difference between saying yes to everyone and saying yes to God. In The Best Yes she will help you:Cure the disease to please with a biblical understanding of the command to love.Escape the guilt of disappointing others by learning the secret of the small no. Overcome the agony of hard choices by embracing a wisdom based decision-making process. Rise above the rush of endless demands and discover your best yes today.

    • ASIN: 1400205859
    • ASIN: 1400205859
    • ISBN: 1400205859
    • Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

  • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

    What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, so computer scientists have been grappling with similar problems for decades. And the solutions they’ve found have much to teach us.In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths show how algorithms developed for computers also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunc... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250118360
    • ASIN: 1250118360
    • ISBN: 1250118360
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End


    • ASIN: B00JCW0BCY
    • ASIN: B00JCW0BCY
    • Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books

  • In or Out: A Practical Guide to Decision Making

    Do you feel like you have one foot in and one foot out of your jobs, relationships, and social engagements? Are your big and small life decisions weighing you down in equal measure?Do you have trouble making decisions in all areas of your life? Discover a practical system for making decisions quickly and effectively to achieve everything you dream. In this book, you'll get exclusive access to the balanced toolkit, with decision tools for balanced decision making, a balanced life equation, a balancing matrix, and personal balancing matrix scorecard. Professor and author and A.I. Shoukry sp... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1976702046
    • ASIN: 1976702046
    • ISBN: 1976702046
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

  • Fundamentals of Decision Making and Priority Theory

    This book is a comprehensive summary, primarily of the author's own thinking and research, about the Analytic Hierarchy Process and decision making. It includes advanced mathematical theory and diverse applications. Fundamentals of Decision Making has all the latest theoretical developments in the AHP and new theoretical material not published elsewhere. We consider this book to be the replacement for the original book on the subject, The Analytic Hierarchy Process that was published by McGraw Hill Publishers, New York.

    • ASIN: 0962031763
    • ASIN: 0962031763
    • ISBN: 0962031763
    • Brand: Brand: RWS Publications
    • Manufacturer: RWS Publications

  • Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

    In situations requiring careful judgment, every individual is influenced by their own biases to some extent. With Bazerman's new seventh edition, readers can quickly learn how to overcome those biases to make better managerial decisions. The book examines judgment in a variety of organizational contexts, and provides practical strategies for changing and improving decision-making processes so that they become part of one's permanent behavior.

    • ASIN: 1118065700
    • ASIN: 1118065700
    • ISBN: 1118065700
    • Brand: Brand: Wiley
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

  • Engineering Economy and the Decision-Making Process

    Presents engineering economy in the content context of the entire decision-making framework. Features a four-part structure that starts with the basics of engineering economy and then walks through each step in the decision-making process. Includes examples throughout the book that stem from real-life applications. Introduces and integrates the use of computers and spreadsheets in economic analysis. For engineering professionals looking for increased awareness of the issues involved with engineering economics.          

    • ASIN: 0131424017
    • ASIN: 0131424017
    • ISBN: 0131424017
    • Manufacturer: Prentice Hall

  • Finance for Strategic Decision-Making: What Non-Financial Managers Need to Know

    Finance for Strategic Decision Making demystifies and clarifies for non-financial executives the basics of financial analysis. It shows how they can make important financial decisions that can critically enhance their institution’s ability to respond to competitive challenges, undertake new projects, overcome financial setbacks, and most importantly, create shareholder value. Written by M. P. Narayanan and Vikram K. Nanda—two of the country’s leading authorities on financial strategy—this book offers a practical guide for using financial analysis to enhance strategicdecision making. Th... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0787965170
    • UPC: 723812394487
    • ASIN: 0787965170
    • ISBN: 0787965170
    • Brand: Brand: Jossey-Bass
    • Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass

  • Improving the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process for Veterans

    The United States has long recognized and honored the service and sacrifices of its military and veterans. Veterans who have been injured by their service (whether their injury appears during service or afterwards) are owed appropriate health care and disability compensation. For some medical conditions that develop after military service, the scientific information needed to connect the health conditions to the circumstances of service may be incomplete. When information is incomplete, Congress or the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may need to make a "presumption" of service connection s... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 030910730X
    • ASIN: 030910730X
    • ISBN: 030910730X
    • Manufacturer: National Academies Press

  • Theory and Applications of the Analytic Network Process: Decision Making with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs, and Risks

    The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and its generalization to dependence and feedback, the Analytic Network Process (ANP), are methods of relative measurement of tangibles and intangibles. Being able to derive such measurements is essential for making good decisions. This book is based on the Analytic Network Process and lays out a new approach for making decisions in light of their benefits, opportunities, costs and risks (BOCR) shows how to include the strategic criteria of the decision-maker that must be satisfied regardless of the particular decision being undertaken. This book includes a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1888603062
    • ASIN: 1888603062
    • ISBN: 1888603062
    • Brand: Brand: RWS Publications
    • Manufacturer: RWS Publications

  • This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

    This Naked Mind has ignited a movement across the country, helping thousands of people forever change their relationship with alcohol.   Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives, and worry that it may even be affecting their health. But, they resist change because they fear losing the pleasure and stress-relief associated with alcohol, and assume giving it up will involve deprivation and misery.     This Naked Mind offers a new, positive solution. Here, Annie Grace clearly presents the psychological and neurological components of alcohol use based on th... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B077VTJC8P
    • ASIN: B077VTJC8P
    • Manufacturer: Avery

  • The Managerial Decision-Making Process

    Rather than present decision making strictly as a quantitative science, this text views it as a multidimensional process involving values, psychology, sociology, social psychology, and politics. Using a process model--a focus on the process of a decision rather than the outcome--the book presents a variety of perspectives useful for making and evaluating decisions in all kinds of organizations.

    • ASIN: 0395908213
    • ASIN: 0395908213
    • ISBN: 0395908213
    • Brand: Brand: Cengage Learning
    • Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub

  • Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions

    Where should I live? Is it time to switch careers?What is the best course of action for me?Decisions shape our experiences, from choosing which job offer to accept, to buying the right car, to selecting a good accountant. How do we know which choice is the smart one? How can we be consistent and confident in our decisions? In this book from the three leading authorities on decision-making, readers learn how to approach all types of decisions with a simple set of skills developed by professors from Harvard, MIT, and the University of Southern California.Combining solid research with common sens... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0767908864
    • ASIN: 0767908864
    • ISBN: 0767908864
    • Manufacturer: Crown Business

  • Arguments and Arguing: The Products and Process of Human Decision Making, Second Edition

    The primary focus of the updated, second edition has not changed it embraces the narrative or storytelling approach to the study of argumentation. The first section introduces readers to rhetorical theorists and their principles. These significant contributions to the field of argumentation and debate include Aristotle s views on audiences and the ethical character of an advocate, Burke s dramatistic theory of communication, Brockriede s metaphorical image of arguers, Fisher s narrative paradigm, Mill s guidelines for testing the causal correlation, Perelman and Obrechts-Tyteca s conception of... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1577663624
    • ASIN: 1577663624
    • ISBN: 1577663624
    • Brand: Brand: Waveland Press
    • Manufacturer: Waveland Press

  • The Best Yes : Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands

    Offers advice for overcoming an unhealthy will to please others and learning to make wise choices, counseling readers to learn to say no when appropriate so that they can say yes to God and find

    • UPC: 33432829
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Decision Making Process - eBook

    Leading others in the decision making process can be a daunting experience but this handbook makes the process understandable and easy to apply for the novice and experienced alike. The author takes what the average

    • UPC: 772481080

  • European Decision Making and Legislative Process: Council and the European Parliament - eBook

    Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: B+, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna - School of International Studies, course: European Decision Making, 14 entries in

    • UPC: 612249759

  • Emotional vs. logical/rational decision making - A research project about the role of feelings in the process of decision making - eBook

    Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Psychology - Personality Psychology, grade: A, Prairie Bible College (Prairie Bible College), 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Project Abstract: The purpose of

    • UPC: 562536184

  • The Agony of Decision : Mental Readiness and Leadership in a Crisis

    The Agony of Decision was named one of the Best Crisis Management Books of All Time by Book Authority, the world's leading site for nonfiction recommendations. Book Authority had previously named the it one of

    • UPC: 511736899

  • The Military Decision Making Process And The Battle Of The Little Bighorn - eBook

    Based on his background, education, training, and the information available at the time of his attack, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer made good decisions as he lead the 7th Cavalry in its defeat at the

    • UPC: 337291740

  • Water Management: the Decision Making Process - eBook

    The scarcity of potable water in both urban and rural settings requires that key decision-makers in water management explore innovative and timely solutions. However, the range of solutions currently under consideration are not well understood

    • UPC: 367300509

  • The Political Process in the European Union: Decision Making Procedures and Implementation of Policy - eBook

    Scientific Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 2, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna - School of International Studies, course: The political process of the EU:

    • UPC: 463983934

  • Collaborative Communication Processes and Decision Making in Organizations - eBook

    Although organizational decision-making can be very complex, the understanding of technology applications is significant in not only determining the usefulness of virtual groups in organizations, but also in the designing of electronic collaborative activities. Collaborative

    • UPC: 600445732

  • Administrative Behavior. A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organization de Herbert Alexander Simon - eBook

    Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisAu début des années 1940, il existe au sein des sciences administratives américaines un accord sur quatre principes supposés garantir la bonne gestion des affaires publiques ou

    • UPC: 471275208

  • The Elements of Good Decision Making - Dave Ramsey

    Decision-Making in Organizations

    THE POWER OF DECISION-MAKING | BENEDIKT AHLFELD | TEDxGraz