Ebook: Decision Time: How to make the choices your life depends on

When faced with a life-changing decision do you find that all too often your choice is hasty and you come to regret it? Or perhaps you avoid making choices at all costs from fear that you'll make the wrong one? Laurence Alison and Neil Shortland have spent their careers studying some of the hardest choices that people have to make in some of the most high-pressured environments. 'Decision Time' takes the decision-making techniques used in war zones and war rooms to create a step-by-step guide for decision-making in everyday life.

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About the Authors

* Professor Laurence Alison is the Director of Ground Truth (www.ground-truth.co.uk), a research and training consultancy for military and law enforcement leaders, offering cutting-edge advice and tuition on how to make tough decisions in crisis situations.
He is the author of more than 200 publications including 10 books on critical incidents, offender profiling and interrogation, and his work has influenced high-risk decision-making and interrogation around the world. In 2021 he was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for his services to these areas.

* Neil Shortland, who has a PhD in military decision-making, has worked with the UK Ministry of Defence studying military training and operations in Afghanistan, and established a multi-million-dollar research centre at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell (USA) on security and counter- terrorism.
Together Neil and Laurence have studied how people in extreme situations take high-risk decisions. Their work has taken them all over the world. Their theories of decision-making – specifically, how to overcome overthinking and decision inertia – have been published in academic journals and their critically acclaimed book Conflict: How Soldiers Make Impossible Decisions was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.

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