How to Learn from Your Mistakes and Make Better Decisions

September 25, 2024

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Stacey, the chief executive of a nonprofit focused on energy efficiency, wanted to bolster her leadership team by creating a chief operating officer position. Her first two hires to fill the role were unsuccessful: Neither lasted a full year on the job. These were time-consuming and resource-intensive mistakes.

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is the founder and CEO of Decisive, a decision sciences company using her AREA Method decision-making system for individuals, companies, and nonprofits looking to solve complex problems. Decisive offers digital tools and in-person training, workshops, coaching and consulting. Cheryl is a long-time educator teaching at Columbia Business School and Cornell and has won several journalism awards for her investigative news stories. She’s authored two books on complex problem solving, Problem Solved for personal and professional decisions, and Investing In Financial Research about business, financial, and investment decisions. Her new book, Problem Solver, is about the psychology of personal decision-making and Problem Solver Profiles. For more information please watch Cheryl’s TED talk and visit areamethod.com.

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How to Learn from Your Mistakes and Make Better Decisions

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