Book tip: Your guide to rational analyses and decisions
A new book by Bernd Rodewald offers the perfect knowledge to question arguments, data and forecasts of managers, experts or politicians as well as to make the right decisions in private and professional life.
Analyses, forecasts and decisions are the fuel of our economy, society and private life. There should be no mistakes! The book sets out which questions to ask in order to identify and avoid the thinking traps when compiling data and evaluating it. With this, and the many practical examples, the book is aimed at the following target groups:
- Managers in companies and decision-makers in organizations and politics The book provides the tools to systematically and specifically question statements by experts and available data.
- Experts who provide and interpret information Practical tips help to avoid mistakes when using supporting methods and to arrive at rationally justifiable statements.
- Consultants and trainers who introduce, train or use tools Every tool has its limitations. With the information in the book, they can be clearly named and observed.
- Interested citizens who follow factual issues in the media will learn where weak points may be hidden in the arguments or figures presented and what should therefore be critically questioned.
- Anyone who is faced with a decision: private, professional or as an entrepreneur For every type of decision - to buy a product, for investments, planning the future or deciding between possible alternatives for action - the book offers arguments on how to evaluate essential criteria and weigh them against each other.
This book is not about the "misperceived, misunderstood" that has often been described, but about the usually much more important system of "How do I go about it the right way?" and avoiding misinterpretation by asking, "Why can't something be right?"
The author Dr. Bernd Rodewald himself advises companies on modeling and improving their processes and structures as well as on change management. In his workshops and trainings he experiences again and again how strongly individual and corporate decisions are dependent on personal assumptions and imprints, wrong or inadequate use of methods and techniques as well as insufficient knowledge about how to interpret information correctly.
Bernd Rodewald: Your guide to rational analysis and decision-making. How to avoid mistakes and draw the right conclusions. Publicis Pixelpark, 2017, 247 pages, 58 illustrations, paperback with dust jacket, ISBN 978-3-89578-466-8.
