When faced with a life-changing decision do you find that all too often your choice is hasty and you come to regret it? Or perhaps you avoid making choices at all costs from fear that you'll make the wrong one? Laurence Alison and Neil Shortland have spent their careers studying some of the hardest choices that people have to make in some of the most high-pressured environments. 'Decision Time' takes the decision-making techniques used in war zones and war rooms to create a step-by-step guide for decision-making in everyday life.
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About the Authors
* Professor Laurence Alison is the Director of Ground Truth (www.ground-truth.co.uk), a research and training consultancy for military and law enforcement leaders, offering cutting-edge advice and tuition on how to make tough decisions in crisis situations.
He is the author of more than 200 publications including 10 books on critical incidents, offender profiling and interrogation, and his work has influenced high-risk decision-making and interrogation around the world. In 2021 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for his services to these areas.
* Neil Shortland, who has a PhD in military decision-making, has worked with the UK Ministry of Defence studying military training and operations in Afghanistan, and established a multi-million-dollar research centre at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell (USA) on security and counter- terrorism.
Together Neil and Laurence have studied how people in extreme situations take high-risk decisions. Their work has taken them all over the world. Their theories of decision-making – specifically, how to overcome overthinking and decision inertia – have been published in academic journals and their critically acclaimed book Conflict: How Soldiers Make Impossible Decisions was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.
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Author(s): Laurence Alison & Neil Shortland
Edition: 1
Publisher: Vermilion
Year: 2021
Language: English
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City: London
Tags: Decision making ; Business & Management ; Management decision making ; Self-help & personal development
Cover
Title Page
About the Authors
Dedication
Introduction From War Zones to Wedding Planning
* Chapter 1: Decision Time
· What Is a Decision?
· How Do We Decide?
· Least-Worst Decisions
· Do You Have a Choice?
· The Three Different Ways to Make a Decision
· 1. Follow the rules
· 2. Learn from past experience
· 3. Make a choice
· What we most fear is loss
· DECISION TIME TIPS
* Chapter 2: Decision Inertia
· The Psychology of Doing Nothing
· The Inertia Traps
· Decision avoidance
· Redundant deliberation
· Implementation failure
· Inaction on a Wider Scale
· DECISION TIME TIPS
* Chapter 3: Know Thyself
· How Do I Feel?
· Acute strain
· Chronic strain
· Who Am I?
· Maximisers versus satisficers
· What Is Important to Me?
· Taboos and Trade-offs
· DECISION TIME TIPS
* Chapter 4: Stories and Situations
· Storytelling
· Situational Awareness
· What happens when situational awareness goes awry?
· Imagining the Worst
· Grim storytelling
· DECISION TIME TIPS
* Chapter 5: Time Mastery
· Information-Gathering: How It’s Useful (and When It’s Not)
· Make time work for you
· The Dangers of Acting Too Soon
· Time urgency
· The Law of Diminishing Returns
· Foxtrot thinking
· Setting Deadlines: Being Clear On When to Act
· DECISION TIME TIPS
* Chapter 6: Adaptation
· Cognitive Closure
· Cognitive Tricks and Treats
· Overcoming the odds
· Analogies and anecdotes
· DECISION TIME TIPS
* Chapter 7: Redirecting the Trolley
· Avoiding Change
· Status quo bias
· Don’t Fail to Try
· Being gritty
· Avoiding sunk costs
· Knowing when to keep going
· To Change or Not to Change?
· Be guided by the right principles
· DECISION TIME TIPS
* Chapter 8: Resilience and Recovery
· What Is Resilience?
· Warning Signs
· Build your support network
· The Four Pillars of Resilience
· Health
· Purpose
· Joy
· Feedback
· The lessons of failure
· The Good Habits of Resilient People
· DECISION TIME TIPS
* Conclusion: Time to Face Your Decisions
Appendix A Three-Minute Mindfulness Script
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright
