Spencer Westel

The Decision Position: A Guide to Making Smart Choices Under Pressure (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Make Better Decisions When the Stakes Are High and Time Is Short

We face thousands of decisions daily, but only a handful truly matterthe career-defining moments, relationship crossroads, financial commitments, and life-changing choices that arrive with weight and consequence. When pressure mounts and clarity fades, how you position yourself before deciding determines everything.

In The Decision Position: A Guide to Making Smart Choices Under Pressure, decision-making expert Spencer Westel reveals why intelligent people make catastrophically bad decisionsnot from lack of knowledge, but from poor positioning when the choice arrives. This groundbreaking guide introduces a revolutionary framework for recognizing when you're in a weak decision position and how to reposition yourself for optimal choices, even in high-pressure situations.

What Makes This Book Different:

Unlike traditional decision-making books that focus solely on analytical frameworks, The Decision Position addresses the often-ignored reality that your cognitive, emotional, physical, and informational state dramatically impacts your capacity to choose wisely. Westel demonstrates how exhaustion, emotional reactivity, artificial urgency, and information overload corrupt judgmentand more importantly, how to recognize and correct these vulnerabilities before committing to consequential choices.

Inside You'll Discover:

Learn to distinguish genuine urgency from manufactured pressure and master the art of buying time even when it seems impossible. Understand how decision fatigue depletes your mental resources throughout the day and discover strategies for preserving cognitive capacity for choices that truly matter. Explore the hidden ways emotions like fear, anger, excitement, and grief distort decision-making and develop techniques for working with emotions rather than being controlled by them.

Master the art of information architectureknowing what information you need, where to find it, how to evaluate sources, and critically, what you can't know and shouldn't pretend to know. Learn when to seek counsel from others and when external input creates more confusion than clarity. Discover how to identify and honor your core values while building a compelling vision that guides choices toward the life you actually want to create.

A Practical Framework for Real-World Decisions:

Westel's six-stage frameworkRecognition, Positioning, Framing, Evaluation, Commitment, and Reviewprovides a flexible structure that ensures you're considering the right factors without becoming paralyzed by analysis. Each stage addresses specific aspects of decision-making, from identifying when a significant choice is approaching to learning from outcomes regardless of results.

Perfect For:

• Professionals facing career-defining choices and workplace pressures
• Leaders and managers responsible for high-stakes organizational decisions
• Entrepreneurs navigating uncertainty and rapid change
• Anyone experiencing major life transitions requiring difficult choices
• People who struggle with decision paralysis or chronic second-guessing
• Those who've made impulsive choices they later regretted
• Individuals seeking to align their decisions with their deepest values

Your next important decision is coming. Be ready for it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Spencer Westel
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232882846
• Artikelnr.: 75716060