Truth 6. Know your decision-making style
When I ask my wife how she makes decisions, she says she follows her heart. This is not just an excuse for bypassing formal, rational analysis that is such an essential part of classical decision making. It is also a sense that if you make a decision that you feel passionately about, you will put your heart and soul behind the decision. While I take a more rational approach, sometimes, I do appreciate where her heart has taken us.
Some people, like my wife, take an intuitive approach to decisions, while others would not think about making a decision without careful and formal analysis. These are very different styles of decision making. (In their book The Dynamic Decision Maker: Five Decision Styles for ...
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