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Making good decisions is essential for high-performing organizations. Managers are always called upon to make decisions with limited time and little information.

The books and media items below explore how individuals, groups, and organizations make effective decisions and offer tips of how to enhance effective decision-making.

John Adair's 100 greatest ideas for smart decision making / John Adair

(BF448 .A33 2011eb)
 

Advances in decision making under risk and uncertainty / edited by Mohammed Abdellaoui, John D. Hey

(BF448 .A384 2008)
 

The myth of choice : personal responsibility in a world of limits / Kent Greenfield

(BF448 .G744 2011)
 

How we decide / Jonah Lehrer

(BF448 .L45 2009)
 

Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions / Dan Ariely

(HB74.P8 A75 2009)
 

Games of strategy / Avinash Dixit, Susan Skeath, David Reiley

(HB144 .D59 2009)
 

博弈生存 : 社会现象的博弈论解读 /潘天群著

(HB846.8 .P35 2002)
 

Decision management systems : a practical guide to using business rules and predictive analytics / James Taylor

(HD30.213 .T3973 2012)
 

Decision making and problem solving strategies / John Adair

(HD30.23 .A3 2010eb)
 

Judgment in managerial decision making / Max H. Bazerman, Don A. Moore

(HD30.23 .B38 2009)
 

The art of decisions : how to manage in an uncertain world / Chris Blake

(HD30.23 .B59 2010)
 

Communication and group decision making / [edited by] Randy Y. Hirokawa, Marshall Scott Poole

(HD30.23 .C65 1996)
 

Secrets of power problem solving / by Roger Dawson

(HD30.23 .D3755 2011eb)
 

Escalation in decision-making : behavioural economics in business / Helga Drummond, Julia Hodgson

(HD30.23 .D783 2011)
 

Think smart, work smarter a practical guide to solving problems faster, making better decisions, and improving your effectiveness through thinking smarter / Tremaine du Preez

(HD30.23 .D82 2011eb)
 

Effectiveness of information use for strategic decision making / Wolfgang G{232}answein ; with a foreword by Malte Brettel

(HD30.23 .G36 2011eb)
 

Decision analysis for management judgment / Paul Goodwin, George Wright

(HD30.23 .G66 2009)
 

Think fast! accurate decision-making, problem-solving, and planning in minutes a day / Guy A. Hale

(HD30.23 .H344 2011eb)
 

Handbook of decision making / edited by Paul C. Nutt and David C. Wilson

(HD30.23 .H354 2010)
 

Harvard business review on making smarter decisions / contributors, Max H. Bazerman ... [et al.]

(HD30.23 .H3743 2007eb)
 

群体决策 : 多数规则与投票悖论/ 胡毓达, 胡的的著

(HD30.23 .H75 2006)
 

Facilitator's guide to participatory decision-making / Sam Kaner, with Lenny Lind ... [etc.]

(HD30.23 .K2753 1996)
 

The art of high stakes decision making : tough calls in a speed driven world / J. Keith Murnighan, John C. Mowen

(HD30.23 .M865 2002)
 

Collective preference and choice / Shmuel Nitzan

(HD30.23 .N585 2010)
 

Why decisions fail : avoiding the blunders and traps that lead to debacles / Paul C. Nutt

(HD30.23 .N883 2002)
 

Managerial logic / Hervé Raynaud, in collaboration with Kenneth J. Arrow

(HD30.23 .R396 2011)
 

The results-driven manager : making smart decisions / Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press

(HD30.23 .R447 2006)
 

The decision-making pocketbook a pocketful of tips, tools and techniques to make balanced choices that address needs and the real issues, and that minimise risks and add value / by Neil Russell-Jones ; drawings by Phil Hailstone

(HD30.23 .R87 2008eb)
 

Winning decisions getting it right the first time / J. Edward Russo and Paul J.H. Schoemaker ; with Margo Hittleman

(HD30.23 .R876 2002eb)
 

Extendable rationality understanding decision making in organizations / Davide Secchi

(HD30.23 .S43 2011eb)
 

Dynamic economic decision making : strategies for financial risk, capital markets, and monetary policy / John E. Silvia

(HD30.23 .S553 2011)
 

Group model building : facilitating team learning using system dynamics / Jac A.M. Vennix

(HD30.23 .V47 1996)
 

Managerial decision making and leadership : the essential pocket strategy book / Caroline Wang

(HD30.23 .W353 2010)
 

决策思维 : 人人必备的决策口袋书 /王嘉陵著

(HD30.23 .W355 2009)
 

What I didn't learn in business school : how strategy works in the real world / Jay B. Barney, Trish Gorman Clifford

(HD30.28 .B36835 2010)
 

Strategic thinking : today's business imperative / Irene M. Duhaime, Larry Stimpert, Julie A. Chesley

(HD30.28 .D835 2012)
 

Scenario thinking practical approaches to the future / George Wright & George Cairns

(HD30.28 .W746 2011eb)
 

Problem-solving in groups / Mike Robson

(HD30.29 .R63 2002)
 

Collaboration how leaders avoid the traps, create unity, and reap big results / Morten T. Hansen

(HD31 .H317 2009eb)
 

Administrative behavior : a study of decision-making processes in administrative organizations / Herbert A. Simon

(HD31 .S55 1997)
 

The CEO's boss : tough love in the boardroom / William M. Klepper

(HD38.2 .K58 2010)
 

尋找巴菲特的商業兵團 : 學習營商及人生之道/陳惠仁著= Behind the Berkshire Hathaway Curtain : lessons from Warren Buffet's top business leaders / written by Ronald Chan

(HD38.25.U6 C4312 2010)
 

Analytics at work smarter decisions, better results / Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris, Robert Morison

(HD38.7 .D378 2010eb)
 

Coolhunting : chasing down the next big thing / Peter A. Gloor and Scott M. Cooper

(HD53 .G55 2007)
 

Managerial dilemmas : exploiting paradox for strategic leadership / John Storey, Graeme Salaman

(HD57.7 .S758 2009)
 

Leadership in organizations / Gary Yukl

(HD57.7 .Y85 2013)
 

The practical guide to facilitation a self-study resource / John Farrell, Richard Weaver

(HD66 .F37 2000)
 

Group interaction in high risk environments / edited by Rainer Dietrich with Traci Michelle Childress ; written by the GIHRE Project

(HD66 .G746 2004)
 

Moving out of the box : tools for team decision making / Jana M. Kemp

(HD66 .K46 2008)
 

The five dysfunctions of a team a leadership fable / Patrick Lencioni

(HD66 .L456 2002)
 

Creativity in groups / edited by Elizabeth A. Mannix, Margaret A. Neale, Jack A. Goncalo

(HD66 .R47 v.12)
 

Team effectiveness and decision making in organizations / Richard A. Guzzo, Eduardo Salas and Associates ; foreword by Irwin L. Goldstein

(HD66 .T423 1995)
 

Accounting for decision making and control / Jerold L. Zimmerman

(HF5657.4 .Z55 2011)
 

The business meetings sourcebook : a practical guide to better meetings and shared decision making / Eli Mina

(HF5734.5 .B87 2002)
 

TeamThink : 72 ways to make good, smart, quick decisions in any meeting / Ava S. Butler

(HF5734.5 .B88 1996)
 

Value sweep : mapping corporate growth opportunities / Martha Amram

(HG4028.V3 A5 2002)
 

Understanding group behavior / [edited by] Erich H. Witte, James H. Davis

(HM133 .U526 1996)
 

You don't have to do it alone how to involve others to get things done / Richard H. Axelrod ... [et al.]

(HM716 .Y68 2004)
 

Facilitating group communication in context : innovations and applications with natural groups / edited by Lawrence R. Frey

(HM736 .F33 2006)
 

The IAF handbook of group facilitation : best practices from the leading organization in facilitation / Sandy Schuman, editor

(HM751 .I24 2005)
 

Games and decision making / Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Subir K. Chakrabarti

(QA269 .A44 2011)
 

Markov decision processes and the belief-desire-intention model bridging the gap for autonomous agents / Gerardo I. Simari, Simon D. Parsons

(QA274.7 .S536 2011eb)
 

Theory of conditional games / Wynn C. Stirling

(QA279.4 .S76 2012)
 

Fuzzy multicriteria decision-making : models, methods and applications / Witold Pedrycz, Petr Ekel and Roberta Parreiras

(T57.95 .P42 2011)
 

Design decisions under uncertainty with limited information / Efstratios Nikolaidis, Zissimos P. Mourelatos, and Vijitashwa Pandey

(TA174 .N55 2011)
 

The Abilene paradox / CRM Productions ; directed by Peter J. Jordan ; produced by Janice M. Reynolds ; written by Kirby Timmons

(Media HD30.23 .A23 1984)
 

How great decisions get made / [presented by] Don Maruska ; director/engineer, Gordon Gurley ; production services provided by Stanford Video

(Media HD30.23 .M3752 2004)
 

The art of critical decision making / Michael A. Roberto ; producer, Tony Hidenrick

(Media HD30.23 .R589 2009)