Hal Mooz - Make Up Your Mind: A Decision Making Guide to Thinking Clearly and Choosing Wisely

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Praise for Make Up Your Mind

When you read a book that is so logical in the telling, you realize that this book is genius. It breaks down decision making into a very simple process that has helped me be a better consultant. I just use Hals little business card reminders about what decision making is all about. I keep the card on the dashboard of my car and I refer to it before I visit any client. With this book now available, I will be able to refer people to a book that has powerful strength in helping keep us all on track and focused. It has been a helpful guide for me and I am sure it will be for others.

Lenard Bertain, PhD , Business Consultant

Business leaders need to understand the basis of their decisions and how to optimize them. This book provides an effective framework that is brought to life with interesting anecdotes.

Garry E. Menzel, PhD , Chief Operating Officer, Regulus Therapeutics

Decision making, at all levels, is a major stumbling block for most companies to achieve their desired results of a transformation. Make Up Your Mind provides some incredibly practical ideas on how individuals and organizations can make better decisions. This book will help you to become a champion of fact-based, informed decision making in your life and in your organization.

Mark Holmstrom , Chief Innovation Officer and Partner, Infosys Consulting

With his book, Make Up Your Mind , Hal Mooz provides tools to assist everyonefrom a student, to a parent, to a politician, to a Chief Executiveon how to achieve consistently better outcomes by making better decisions. This is a book you will want to read several times over, and buy multiple copies as gifts for those you care about.

Thomas J. Powell , Chief Executive Officer, Resolute Capital Partners

Hals book brings discipline and structure to the sometimes daunting problem of choosing among alternatives in both simple and complex situations. Make Up Your Mind should assist anyone who faces choices in their business life as well as in their private life. The book provides clear examples of both situations and shows how the use of the techniques can result in focusing on defensible choices.

WEM , Business Owner

I have taught Decision Analysis for NASA and numerous aerospace and commercial organizations for over 20 years. I consider this book a valuable contribution to help organizations faced with technical decisions improve the processes they use and thus the decision outcomes that affect both business and mission success.

John R. Chiorini, PhD , Business Consultant

If youre lying awake at night, wondering how youll tackle a high-impact decision, Make Up Your Mind provides a clear, concise approach. As has been noted before, common sense is rarely common knowledge. From deciding which projects to undertake, to managing the important decisions that occur throughout the project lifecycle, Hal provides a step-by-step technique to replace decision making thats all too often governed by gut feel or intuition. I will recommend this book to all of our clients.

Dan Swaigen, PMP, MCP , Chief Executive Officer, PM Connect, Inc .

Ive learned a lot while working with Hal Mooz over the years, such as how to listen, the real meaning of words and actions, and being proactively responsive to others. The challenge that has always been with me is what you are thinking, and now with his new book, the challenge is ever present! I think Hal brings it all home with Make Up Your Mind !

Herb Myers , Regional Business Banking, President, Wells Fargo & Co .

We all want to make Good Decisions... yet often dont! Moozs book Make Up Your Mind shows us how to do it better, and he highlights the many pitfalls we need to avoid along the way. He gives us a new way of thinking about this old process. A must-read for both home and business... and for both technical and nontechnical readers alike!

Kevin Forsberg, PhD , Expert Systems Engineering Professional and INCOSE Pioneer

As a retired consulting economist, I am acutely aware of the uncertainties that surround forecasts and projections of economic and social behavior. I wish Make up Your Mind had been available to me, as I am sure it would have led me to more rigorously evaluate the uncertainties surrounding the bases for my recommendations and increase my clients confidence in their possible outcomes.

Robert T. Mott , Retired Consultant

The great strength of this book lies not so much in its rigorous methodologies of decision making and analysis, but rather in the implied sense of ethics, integrity, and respect which the author champions for us. Even though his approach to decision making is modern in its appeal to rigorous investigation, hard scientific evidence, and meticulous planning, it is actually very old-fashioned in its commitment to the values of honor, responsibility, and personal integrity.

Jim Boyers, PhD , Clinical Psychologist

Make Up Your Mind is about choosing a decision. Mr. Mooz presents a manner, style, and a sustainable method of choosing for all the citizens of all ages of our world to utilize. Everyone will benefit by reading, studying, and absorbing this book.

Charles A. Arnold, MD , Oncologist, Futures Pool Operator

In this book, Hal Mooz has brought order to the process of decision making, more desperately needed here early in the twenty-first century than ever before in human history. The range of experience Mooz brings to the writing of a book about ways to make wise choices is extremely impressive as is the clarity and concreteness with which he sets forth the procedures hes devised. As a professor of English who for half a century has carefully examined the critical thinking skills of thousands of college students, I can testify to the desperate need for a book of this nature.

Jack Miles , English Professor

ALSO BY HAL MOOZ

Visualizing Project Management: Models and Frameworks for Mastering Complex Systems, Third Edition (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005)

Communicating Project Management: The Integrated Vocabulary of Project Management and Systems Engineering (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003)

Copyright 2012 by Hal Mooz. All rights reserved.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

Published simultaneously in Canada.

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