If you are looking for the best decision-making books you can read, you’ve come to the right place.
In this article, we will cover the top 5 decision-making books that you can read to improve your decision-making skills. I have personally read each book and can recommend them.
The Best 5 Books on Decision Making
1. Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Dan Heath and Chip Heath
Decisive is one of my favorite books to read on decision-making. It’s easy to read and super informative.
In the book, the authors discuss some common errors we make when we make decisions and then give us a method we can follow to make better decisions.
They propose the WRAP method:
- Widen your options
- Reality-test your assumptions
- Attain distance before deciding
- Prepare to be wrong
If you want an easy-to-read yet super-informative book on decision-making, this one is great.
You can get the book here on Amazon or read our summary of the book here.
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2. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
Thinking in Bets teaches us how to think about decisions differently.
Too often we base the “rightness” of our decisions based on the outcome (instead of the process we took to make the decision) and we think of our decisions as “right or wrong”.
Instead, Duke says we should think about decisions such as poker. Everything about poker is probability. Even bad hands win sometimes, and the best hands can lose as well.
What’s important is that you make the best decision based on what you have and know. A good decision is not based on if you won, but on the process you used to make that decision.
If we do this with our everyday decisions, we make better decisions not only as individuals but as groups. We also become more welcoming of input and disagreement.
If you want to improve the way you and your group think about decision-making (and help avoid poor choices), this book is for you.
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