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BOOK REVIEW Decide and conquer : Make winning decisions and take control of your life. ISBN 978-81-317-2499-6 Author: Stephen P.Robbins, Ph.D 1 Department of Management studies,Pondicherry university

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a book review on decide and conquer, the book provides more information about how to make decisions?, why to make decisions, where to make and where not make decisions, when to make a decision and when to not make a decisions,

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BOOK REVIEWDecide and conquer : Make winning decisions and take control of your life.ISBN 978­81­317­2499­6Author: Stephen P.Robbins, Ph.D

1Department of Management studies,Pondicherry 

university

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Theme of the book

• Our life is the sum of the decisions we make, better decisions means better life. This book tells all the skills we need to make the best possible decisions everyday.

• This book will attract readers of all ages, because everyone of us at a situation suffers in making decisions.

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characters

Everyone of us take decisions at every walk of life.

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Personal response

• We can improve our decision making skills.

• We can control only the decision process, not the outcomes.

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Personal response

• Our decisions should be simple, but not simpler.

• Why is it so hard  to diet, quit smoking , or avoid drinking? Each comes with immediate reward , and each delays its costs to some unclear future.

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Personal response

• Delay major decision when you’re stressed out or excited.

• What has happened in the past has no impact on what occurs in the future, but it does not permits us to think that we’re better at making predictions 

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Personal response

• Don’t frame any conclusion, before you take conclusion.(B/13).

• Be aware that all our perceptions are biased. Consider how an impartial outsider might see the situation differently.

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Personal response

• Almost every decision you make is constrained by those decisions that preceded it and limits the decisions you will make in the future.

• All decisions aren’t important

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Personal response• An overload of information 

leads to information blackout. it does not enrich, but improves.

• Doing nothing is a decision! It’s a decision to maintain the status quo.

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Personal response

• Clear goals and preferences make choosing a lot easier 

• Never do today that which you can do tomorrow.

Today

Tomorrow

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Personal response

• It isn’t that we can’t see the solution, it’s that we can’t see the problem.

• You miss 100% of the shots you never take. It's very hard to become successful without giving up some security and taking a chance

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Conclusion • A must read book to 

everyone to make decisions  in a simple way, but in powerful manner.

• “it’s not difficult to convert a paperwork into a proper work, if we DECIDED TO CONQUER it.

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