156: Making Complex Decisions Confidently with Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 17 May 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Journalist Cheryl Strauss Einhorn shares a robust approach to complex decision-making via AREA perspective-taking method.
You’ll Learn:
- How to make complex decisions with the AREA Method
- Why you should document your decision problems
- How to slow down to speed up your decision-making
About Cheryl
Cheryl Einhorn is the creator of the AREA Method, a decision making system for individuals and companies to solve complex problems. Cheryl is the founder of CSE Consulting and the author of the book Problem Solved, a Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence & Conviction. Cheryl teaches as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and has won several journalism awards for her investigative stories about international political, business and economic topics.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Blog: How High School Seniors Can Make Their Big College Decision Better by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
- Book: Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
- Website: AREA Method
- Term: Planning fallacy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete Lekitis. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 156 with Cheryl Strauss Einhorn. |
| 0:27.0 | Cheryl has some brilliance when it comes to complex decision-making and doing a robust investigation so you're going to learn |
| 0:34.7 | one how to make complex decisions with the area method two why you should |
| 0:39.8 | document your decision problems and three how to slow down to speed up your decision making. |
| 0:46.6 | So if you would like to check out the show notes or the transcripts or the links to items that we reference |
| 0:50.8 | here it's over at awesome at your job |
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| 1:35.0 | Now, here's Cheryl's story. |
| 1:37.0 | Cheryl Einhorn is the creator of the Area Method, a decision-making system for individuals and companies |
| 1:41.9 | to solve complex problems. |
| 1:43.2 | Cheryl is the founder of CSE consulting and the author of the book Problem Solved, a powerful |
| 1:48.6 | system for making complex decisions with confidence and conviction. |
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