Thinking Dimensions

Executives, managers, and employees make thousands of decisions every day to get things done. Decision making drives strategic and operational activity of those who must implement the selected choices. Yet many people do not know what separates those who excel at decision making versus those who do.

The most effective managers apply a common recipe or set of questions to engage others and make thinking visible. Knowing the right question to ask helps sort relevant from irrelevant information to accelerate results.

With the onslaught of information, speed and complexity of business – the simple foundation of decision making and its criticality for management effectiveness is often overlooked. This book provides an easy step–by-step process to enable you to understand how making is the foundation for performance and collaboration.

This book will:

• Help you understand and set the strategic or operational context for decision
• Show you why decision making is the root of all issue resolution and collaboration.

• Provide you with the recipe of questions to allow you sort the relevant from irrelevant information to enable you to resolve issues more quickly

To manage beyond the ordinary you must understand that decision making is the core thinking process to power results. This book will enable you to learn and apply the four variations of decision making to more effectively resolve issues.

The Four Critical Think Process that Drive Collaboration are:

1. Setting Priorities – Understanding the problem situation – what first?

2. Finding Cause – Getting to the root of the problem – why did it happen?

3. Making Choices – Setting requirements for improvement – what now?

4. Managing Risk – Fine-tuning the plan – thinking ahead – What if?