Bulletproof Decisions

How Executives Can Get It Right, Every Time

Ruben Ugarte

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781032028262
• eBook ISBN: 9781000508055
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Strategy
• Index: Business

We are told from a young age that we should strive to make the right decisions, but we aren't taught exactly how to do this. Every day, we make over 35,000 decisions in our personal and professional lives. How many of those decisions do we get right? This book will help business executives systematically tackle these 35,000 decisions. Executives are forced to make critical decisions that impact their lives, their employees' lives, and the lives of their customers. Decisions like what products to create, who should be hired, and what divisions to shut down are all commonplace in the executive suite.

This book offers three strategies for dealing with decisions: problem-solving techniques, routines, and decision-making frameworks. Each strategy is designed to help readers achieve more clarity, gain time back, and improve the quality of their decisions. The first one focuses on helping readers solve the right problem instead of wasting time on the wrong one. The second strategy helps deal with decisions that need to be made once but can then be executed regularly. The third and final strategy provides a three-step framework for making the most important decisions in their lives.

The focus of the author's work is on helping readers use data to make better decisions. This book gives readers the tools to convert the insights they learn from their data into actionable decisions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Author
• Introduction
• Other Works by Ruben Ugarte
• Chapter 1 35,000 Reasons Why You Need This Book
• Chapter 2 The 5 Forces behind All Decisions and Why You Gravitate toward Some
• Chapter 3 Before You Decide, Choose a Problem Worth Solving
• Chapter 4 The Turtleneck Principle for Making Decisions Once and for All
• Chapter 5 Using the 3 Os Framework for the Critical Few
• Chapter 6 Knowing What’s Best, When to Decide, and How to Tell Them Apart
• Chapter 7 How Leaders Make Decisions in Tough Situations
• Chapter 8 The 7 Pillars of Effective Decision-Making for Individuals and Teams
• Chapter 9 Understanding Why You Made the Wrong or Right Decision
• Chapter 10 Trusting Your Gut in a World Ruled by Data
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• Index