Decision Making & Strategic Thinking Secrets of Fortune 500
Decision Making & Strategic Thinking Secrets of Fortune 500, Master decision making, strategic thinking, & problem solving from Fortune 500 firms taught by globally-renowned expert.
Your decision making and strategic thinking will determine whether you thrive in our increasingly-disrupted future.
Yet traditional advice to “go with your gut” in decision making and strategic thinking so often leads to disasters, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. So how do the leaders of Fortune 500 companies make the right calls on even the toughest decisions and strategies?
They recognize that behavioral science has revealed that our typical approach to decision making suffers from systematic dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases. These mental blindspots lead to disastrous consequences in our professional and personal lives. Fortunately, recent scholarship has revealed effective yet counterintuitive strategies to enable you to defeat these cognitive biases and make the wisest and most profitable business and even personal decisions. By learning about and addressing these dangerous judgment errors, and adopting decision-making strategies drawing on cutting-edge science and real-world best practice, you will master the secrets used by Fortune 500 companies to dramatically improve the quality of your decision making and strategic thinking.
After taking this course, you will:
· Feel truly confident about your decisions and your strategy
· Minimize the numerous gray zones that plague typical decision making and strategic thinking
· Discover the cognitive biases that are most harmful for you personally and for others in your team in decision making and strategic thinking
· Free yourself and those on your team of the constant ruminations and doubts about whether you made the right calls
Sounds too good to be true? These methods were successfully used by Aflac, Applied Materials, Entergy, Honda, Reckitt, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Wells Fargo, World Wildlife Fund, and Xerox to improve the decision-making skills of their teams. Over the last two decades, I trained, consulted, and coached the leaders and staff at these Fortune 500 companies, as well as at middle-market companies and quickly-growing startups, on decision making, strategic thinking, future-proofing, and cognitive bias risk management as the CEO of the boutique future-proofing consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts. The secrets used by these companies will be revealed in this course.
Besides such real-world, pragmatic expertise, I spent over 15 years in academia, including 7 years as a professor at the Ohio State University, as a behavioral scientist studying decision making and cognitive bias risk management. I published dozens of peer-reviewed articles in academic journals such as Behavior and Social Issues and Journal of Social and Political Psychology. Thus, this course is thoroughly informed by cutting-edge research on decision making and strategic thinking.
This combination of business and science led to my decision making and strategic thinking expertise gaining global recognition in over 550 articles I published and 450 interviews I gave for prominent venues. They include Fortune, USA Today, CNBC, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, CBS News, Business Insider, Government Executive, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Inc. Magazine, and Time.
These techniques are also featured in my best-selling books, such as Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Career Press, 2019) and The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships (New Harbinger, 2020). Further attesting to my global renown, my work was translated into Chinese, German, Russian, Korean, Polish, and other languages.
That’s what you can expect in this course: decision making and strategic thinking methods used successfully at even the biggest companies to seize competitive advantage, thoroughly informed by cutting-edge research, and featured in top media venues and best-selling books. The course features 8 sections in the following order:
1) Take the “Assessment on Dangerous Judgment Errors in the Workplace,” to help you learn about which cognitive biases are most problematic for you and your team
2) Discover the structure of our minds and why typical decision-making advice, such as “go with your gut,” so often results in disastrous decisions, and how to use strategic thinking and decision making informed by science and best practice to get the best outcomes
3) Master a technique to make quick and effective decisions on any choices where you or your team just need a “good enough” answer
4) Master a technique for how to make major decisions where you or your team wants the best answer possible, rather than settling for “good enough”
5) Master a technique for making complex decisions with a number of different options that each have certain strengths and weaknesses
6) Master a technique to avoid failures and maximize success when implementing significant decisions and/or managing projects
7) Master a technique to future-proof your strategic planning for yourself or your team to make sure you’re making the right strategic decisions
8) Tying these all together, the last module will help you develop the mental habits necessary to notice and address cognitive biases and recognize when and how you should deploy all the techniques you’ve learned earlier
Once you register, you’ll get access to the core textbook course materials packet. The packet consists of two of my best-selling books, an assessment on dangerous judgment errors, and manuals and decision aids for decision-making strategies, all of which sell for over $50 combined.
Your registration is risk-free: you’ll have 30 days to assess the course and get your money back if you think it’s not the right decision. See the Udemy terms and conditions for more.
I look forward to welcoming you into the world of evidence-based, science-driven decision making and strategic thinking tested in the real world of dozens of Fortune 500 companies and hundreds of middle-market companies, nonprofits, and startups. To ensure that you master the secrets to and your team seize competitive advantage, register now!
