Add value with every decision. Few things are as valuable in business, and in life, as the ability to make good decisions. Decision Quality, a new book from award-winning educator Carl Spetzler and his SDG colleagues Hannah Winter and Jennifer Meyer, is here to help you make decisions that maximize value creation in the face of risk and uncertainty. Order your copy now and join the growing group of leaders who are benefitting from Decision Quality’s powerful concepts and practical tools.
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Advance Praise for Decision Quality
“No one has coached more businesses through high-stakes strategic decisions than Carl Spetzler and the team at SDG. If you’re looking for wisdom on making better decisions in your business, you’ve come to the right place.”
— Chip & Dan Heath, Bestselling Co-Authors including Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
“An excellent guide for consultants, technical experts, and program managers to achieve the most impact from their work.”
—Thomas Olavson, PhD, Google Inc.
“Implementing the decision quality processes described in this book should become the ‘new normal’ for all organizations and their leaders.”
—China Gorman, former CEO, Great Place to Work Institute
“From beginning to end, this book underscores the business benefits that accrue from investing in decision quality processes. The authors offer actionable steps that leaders can take to check biases rooted in deeply held beliefs, and steer their organizations toward better value creation.”
—Philip E. Tetlock, PhD, Bestselling Co-Author Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
“A clear ‘must read’ for everyone in a leadership position.”
—Gerard Kleisterlee, Chairman, Vodafone Group Plc
“True decision quality is highly elusive, yet its impact on an organization is enormous. In this book the authors deliver an approach and philosophy that can provide an immediate and positive impact on personal and business decisions. Books that achieve this in such a readable format are rare indeed – acquiring a copy could be the first in a series of quality decisions!”
—Andrew Evans, Unilever; Fellow, Society of Decision Professionals
“A very savvy, sorely needed systematic approach to making uncertainty an integral dimension of the questions we ask and the answers we seek. Their strategy shows you how to judge the quality of your decisions without knowing or relying on outcomes that may or may not be a reflection of the actual decision process.”
—Robert A. Burton, MD, Bestselling Author including
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not
“Carl Spetzler has been working on how to improve business decision quality for half a century. Everyone who wants to make better business decisions would benefit by learning the lessons in this book.”
—Ronald A. Howard, ScD, Stanford University School of Engineering
“Decision quality is one of the most chronically overlooked sources of value in industry today. This book describes a set of principles and techniques that companies and individuals alike can use to improve the quality of their decisions and, ultimately, grow their bottom line. It is a practical and valuable guide for anyone seeking to improve their own or their organization’s decision making.”
—Joe Melvin, MBA, Genentech, Inc.
“Decision quality takes us back to the beginning. After decades of focus on ‘execution,’ this book offers a practical and vivid primer on starting from the right decisions in the first place.”
—Richard Whittington, PhD, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
“Simply put, this book provides with great clarity a framework for decision-making quality that unquestionably works. We adopted this framework at NCI Building Systems, Inc. because it encourages our collaborative culture, helps us create value, and helps us avoid mistakes.”
—Norman C. Chambers, Chairman, President & CEO, NCI Building Systems, Inc.
“The decision quality approach and framework discussed in this book are especially valuable to non-profits as they strive to achieve large social goals on limited resources. Provided here are the critical skills required in any environment to make the best decisions possible—particularly those having very little ‘give’ for margin of error.”
—Amie Batson, MBA, Chief Strategy Officer, PATH
“The explosion of data, speed of change, and level of uncertainty in today’s organizations can make sound decision making a daunting prospect. The DQ framework provided here can help leaders improve the quality of their decisions and drive better outcomes for their organizations.”
—Joyce Maroney, MBA, Director, The Workforce Institute at Kronos
“We are all susceptible to the traps and biases that lead us to make questionable decisions. The framework, principles, and practices described in this book really do work to improve decision making quality, both in personal life and the corporate setting.”
—Peter Ray, MBA, Vice President, Major Pharmaceutical Company
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