Crucial Decisions: Leadership in Policymaking and Crisis ManagementSimon and Schuster, 1989 - 388 pages The author shows corporate executives, organizational policymakers and general managers how to avoid errors and ensure quality decision-making. After analyzing frequent reasons for poor, often catastrophic decisions he offers 37 characteristics to help in personnel selection. |
Contents
Order Out of Theoretical Chaos? | 3 |
Common Simplistic Strategies Evoked by Constraints | 27 |
Affiliative Decision Rules | 45 |
SelfServing and Emotive Rules | 65 |
Sound Policymaking Procedures | 87 |
Are the Main Assumptions About Process | 119 |
A New Theoretical Framework | 137 |
Values and Limitations of the Constraints Model | 167 |
Who Will Be Good Policymakers and Who Will Not? | 203 |
Additional Hypotheses | 231 |
Notes | 265 |
Sources | 343 |
References | 353 |
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