Archive for the 'decision making' Category
My Favorite Books of 2009
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford January 1st, 2010 in Book Reviews, Leadership, Team Building, Training Resources, Vision, decision making, problem solving.I love to read and usually have two or three books going at one time. Looking back on my year and on what I learned, I thought it might be interesting to identify a few that had the most impact on me. Here are a baker’s dozen that I found stimulating. I liked the first […]
Making Decisions: The Peril of Too Many Choices
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford September 9th, 2009 in decision making, problem solving.“Choice is good.” In fact, it is a uniquely American core value!
I was recently shopping in a high end grocery store and was surprised to find that I had over 50 choices of coffee flavors from which to choose. Moving on to the refrigerated beer aisle to check out the selection for my other favorite […]
Decision Making: Learning to Close Doors
0 Comments Published by Rick Rumford June 7th, 2009 in Leading Change, decision making, problem solving.“Every choice is a renunciation.”
This quote by Thomas Aquinas cited in a recent article by Ronald Rolheiser, a Catholic priest writing in the Texas Catholic Herald, made me literally stop reading and think! I mean that I put down the paper and stared blankly into space for at least five minutes. The starkness of the […]
