The Right Decision Every Time: How to Reach Perfect Clarity on Tough Decisions (Paperback)

by Luda Kopeikina

Book Overview

Drawing on her breakthrough research with 115 CEOs, Luda Kopeikina offers practical, proven techniques for structuring decisions, achieving clarity about the real issues involved, and using that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0768682045
• ISBN13: 9780768682045
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: FT Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great book with solid foundation

The framework presented in this book is insightful and practical. Many books about decision-making are based on anecdotical "evidence" and lack a rigorous analysis of the situation and facts. The author presents a methodology widely used to help people to deal with stress and make more objective decisions. In fact, Harvard University, no less, has a training program based on the same techniques this books proposes: biofeedback and awareness, Very helpful to speed up the decision making process. More importantly, the techniques presented here will help us to make conscious decisions that will allow us to get a good night's sleep.

Great Executive Coaching Book

As an entrepreneur at an MIT incubated start-up, my team and I are constantly faced with decisions. In such a fast-paced environment and with limited resources and time we turned to Luda's Kopeikina's book to be better equipped to reach decisions not only faster but to make better decisions in the first place. "The right decision every time" has brought tremendous awareness to the whole management team on how critical it is for the success of our company to be in a "state of clarity" , how to get there (the exercises and examples are great in her book) and how to avoid so-called "death habits" such as multi-tasking and working 24/7. A great executive coaching book, I highly recommend it if you want to take your leadership development to the next level!

A great practical methodology for remorse-free decisions

I just finished reading the advanced reader copy of "The Right Decision Every Time..." Very impressive piece of work by Luda. Here are some very noteworthy specifics: * I Like the five phases outlined in the book, particularly starting off with relaxing your mind & body. * The book is filled with in-line examples & assignments; they are great reinforcement and enhance the readability of the book. * I particularly liked the "Acknowledge Emotions" concept...too often we as leaders look to cerebral answers and are reluctant to acknowledging gut instincts. This concept liberates the gut-thinkers to listen to and acknowledge emotions but not get caught up in the emotion * The pick a fight chapter is great! Luda articulates very well the concept of letting others poke holes at a decision to make the decision better * I love the practicality of the methodology. Not heady, just very basic and understandable. * The clarity of objective chapter very nicely lays out a practical and usable decision map. * The methodology acknowledges both near-term and long-term benefits, constraints, and objectives. Very important in coming up with holistic decisions to thorny problems. This is particularly helpful to avoid making short-sighted decisions which will come back to bite the decision maker later because long-term implications weren't considered. All in all, a great read which clearly explains a practical and usable decision-making framework for managers at any level. Great job Luda!

Making the right decision every time can be learned by any executive or manager.

This book does a great job to address the importance of clarity throughout the decision making process. It provides a Decision Map which will help any executive or manager to carefully consider and explore the objective, constraints, assumptions, options and success metrics for any decision. It emphasizes the importance of a corporate culture where people can openly disagree, which ignites dialogue and debate. It forces you to ask questions and pushes people to defend their positions. Its conflict in search of understanding that leads you towards making the best decisions. The book is filled with famous quotes and words of wisdom which are helpful to the reader to reinforce the decision making process. It takes the subjective function we call decision making and turns it into a disciplined approach and process which will help you to make the right decision every time.

Actionable Recommendations for Better Decisions

Decision-making seems to be a very popular topic these days, perhaps due to Malcolm Gladwell's recent book "Blink". I've read both "Blink" and Kopeikina's "Right Decision Every Time" and found the latter book much more informative because it provides not only interesting case histories, but very actionable and well reasoned approaches for decision making. I also applaud the author in that while she while brings an MIT developed analytical approach to problem solving, she also emphasizes the mental 'clarity state' and 'informed instinct' aspects of decisions and effective decision makers.