Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions

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Identify the criteria. Most decisions require you to accomplish more than one objective. When buying a car, you may want to maximize fuel economy, minimize cost, maximize comfort, and so on. The rational decision maker will identify all relevant criteria in the decision-making process.

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Smart Choice is always adding new carriers and providing incentives to qualify for additional compensation which allows our agency to perform at the highest level. Understand the consequences.… Assessing frankly the consequences of each alternative will help you to identify those that best meet your objectives—all your objectives. … This book gives a systematic way to help make better choices. We take many life-critical decisions on the fly without going through the depth of the problems but I am sure referring to this book would make a huge difference. Phase 4: Unconscious Application. So about a week after finishing the book, I found myself buying a car from a private party. I found myself analyzing my decision in terms of defining my real problem and stating my objectives before I rushed to solve what I felt was the immediate need. I found myself criticizing my limited efforts to collect data (is a Carfax report really necessary? Do I really need a mechanic to look at it?) I like to think that these were all common sense internal reminders, but the sheepish truth is that I WASN'T DOING MOST OF THEM. Bummer. I guess it is good I read it. Karen Kharasch, senior director of research strategy and operations for the Duke Cancer Institute, also listened to Keeney’s LinkedIn Live for help with professional and personal decisions, like setting boundaries for ending her work day while working remotely.

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Define the problem. (M)anagers often act without a thorough understanding of the problem to be solved, leading them to solve the wrong problem. Accurate judgment is required to identify and define the problem. Managers often err by (a) defining the problem in terms of a proposed solution, (b) missing a bigger problem, or (c) diagnosing the problem in terms of its symptoms. Your goal should be to solve the problem not just eliminate its temporary symptoms. Often we don’t spend much time on the front end of decision making,” Keeney said. “We try to solve the problem we have with a decision right away. Taking time to think things through is important because decision making is the only way to purposefully influence your life. Everything else is beyond our control.” Some of the ideas in this book can robustify decisions and reinforce common sense while reducing the role of more unreliable intuitions and instincts when people are not experts in a specific type of decisions (for experts in a specific decision type, intuitions/instincts are much more likely to be valid). But a lot of the book seemed like just an admonition to think more carefully about all key components of a decision, which has some value but was less than I expected somehow. Keeney said to let your values, as expressed by your objectives, guide your thought process during this step of the decision-making process. The PrOACT decision making model was developed by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa. They described how to make a decision using the PrOACT model in the book Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions.

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Smart Choice has allowed me to get direct appointments with carriers that I wouldn't have been able to get on my own or even through referrals. Well, some might argue that the techniques provided in this book are basics and nothing phenomenal. But I disagree with them, since in most of the decision making process the techniques provided here are the fundamental things that we must do but we don't. And that leads everything haywire. What do you care about?” Keeney said. “People often jump in and go with the first alternative that contributes to an obvious objective without thinking about long-term consequences. Will you be happier making more money with a new job, if you do not learn much or enjoy what you’re working on?” Smart Choices - Healthy Food and Drink Supply Strategy for Queensland Schools is all about offering healthy food and drink choices to students in Queensland schools.

See if you can brainstorm new decision statements and objectives to create alternative results to the question at hand. Keeney said never to settle on the first alternative that you come up with.