MDPME (Home): Managing Decision- Priority- Mental Error is dedicated to helping managers, administrators, lawyers, CEOs, small business owners and other professional decision makers avoid mental error in decision selection and fundamental prioritizing, with quotes by noted psychologists and authors - and links to their books. (one page)

On-line Business & Legal Research (OBLR): Hundreds of links for on-line research. Links to informative sites, journals, texts, newspapers, magazines, publications, archives, databases. The first eighteen (18) upper left-hand categories list many sites that are helpful in general. (8 pages)

About This Web Site: Caution and Compassion in the Workplace: Cautious and wise decisions are not an outgrowth of experience or formal education alone. Your care, caution and compassion will keep your business safe ... for your employees, customers and whomever else may happen to traverse your way. (one page)

Association of Professional Decision Makers (aopdm): A new, online association drawing upon the advice and opinions of psychologists, managers and other professional decision makers in an effort to provide reference tools that may be reviewed when making important decisions. (one page)

Competence in Decision Making: A Decision Making Rule One miniscule possibility for a tragic outcome to a particular decision DOES suffice to bar its implementation ... unless and until that single, unmanageable, tragic possibility can somehow be prevented or mitigated into some other more benign possible outcome (or unless all the other alternative outcomes turn out to be worse than the unsafe contingency in question). (4 pages)

A Manager's Priority Primer: Help for beginning managers with fundamental priorities. Safety, security, competition, training, service. (one page)

Beliefs & Fallacies: (I) We all intuitively make assumptions about reality and how we expect it to "behave" each minute of each day. These are our personal beliefs, our guides to managing our perceptions of everything surrounding us. (II) Fallacious Reasoning: We are prone to being duped by arguments that appeal to our emotional side. Included at this site is a very thorough discussion of fallacious reasoning, special thanks to Professor Stephen Downes. (13 pages)

Exercising Authority in the Workplace: The manager's true authoritative role in the workplace: benevolence, subservience, security. (one page)

For Entrepreneurs: Are You Making Any Of These 10 Deadly Small Biz Mistakes? These traps/mistakes are common to many entrepreneurs, courtesy of Meir Liraz, President of Starting a Business Guides. (one page)

Today To Decide! A decision-maker's poem. Includes an interpretation below. (one page)

How To Effectively Select the Most Prudent Decisions Professional decision-making differs from impromptu decision-making. This article addresses both and provides a convenient outline of the decision-making process so that nothing may become overlooked, assuming you have adequate time to consider all the steps. Outline includes a simple decision-making flowchart. (9 pages)

Errors in Human Cognition: Quotes and paraphrases of over 40 psychologists and authors on typical human mental error - with links to their books. (8 pages)

Goal Analysis Questionnaire: Quick checklist to run through to help keep you focused on the final outcome to your decision, special thanks to contributor, Head Injury Hotline's headinjury.com. (one page)

Professional Decision Making: A Mental Map A professional decision-making attitude that you may wish to adopt as your own, incorporate into your own or just refer to from time to time. (2 pages)

Training Workers in the Workplace Training workers is not always so simple as a classroom lecture and test. Executives commonly like to imagine matters this way, but we humans aren’t practically equipped to consistently absorb and apply information in such an ideal manner. (one page)

Some Favorites from Aesop Though Aesop might have composed some of the over 650 instructive fables to his credit, he likely did not single-mindedly compose most. Despite the ambiguities, however, here is a favorite selection, delightful to read regardless of their true authorship. (one page)

Ethical Decision: A Framework For Ethics in Decision Making: A thorough discussion of ethical decision making, courtesy of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in California, USA. (one page)

Avoiding Mental Error: General & Professional: When the human mind finds itself having to exert considerable toil toward reaching some particular end, the temptation to take shortcuts to reduce the necessary work — mental and physical — is always there, and we sometimes rely on our own beliefs, stereotypes or rules-of-thumb to help reduce the mental load. The only logical recourse, then, is to select a group of minds that may effectively reduce the mental burden in an effort to prevent some subtle detail from being overlooked. (15 pages)

Providing Professional Advice: Pertinent issues when you're in charge and others seek your advice. Trust, taking exception, recognizing assumptions and third variables, your own beliefs. (one page)

Seeking Optimal Solutions: Techniques to use to find that hidden, optimal solution to your particular problem. (3 pages)

Suggestions in the Workplace: When it's not the boss' idea: Criticism of the typical means that employers and managers engage in handling suggestions offered by their subordinates. Special thanks to contributors, Sandra Clark and Al Whittall. (one page)

“Animals are right!” say Turkey and Chicken Animal rights, lucidly and thoroughly highlighted, presented in a clever format and discussed alternatingly by Turkey and Chicken. (one page)

Morality in Decision Making: Adaptation and discussion of Lawrence Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development: Selfless, Righteous, Principled, Conventional and Preconventional. (one page)

Simpleminded Error: Avoiding Simplemindedness: Suppose you had to quietly confront an important decision alone and single-mindedly face a universe of possibilities and potential outcomes. What would you do? How would you navigate through such a scenario so that nothing unwanted or unprepared for would subsequently occur and spiral your predicament down an even deeper abyss than you started out with? These are the tools to use to ward off your own inherent ignorance and stupid predispositions!! (14 pages)

Seeking Expert Advice: Pertinent items to consider when seeking the advice of another: quoting, reliability, influence. (one page)

Passivity In The Workplace: We lead our lives day-to-day, typically, in a relaxed, easy state. Our thoughts revolve around information picked up by our senses and analyzed in a cognitive manner or style shaped by our experiences and influenced by our personal emotional attitudes. This is passive thinking. (one page)

Interviewing: What NOT To Do: The Online Women's Business Center discusses the employment interview process: legal pointers to avoid. (one page)

Vegetarians are RIGHT ... Killing is Wrong! An important conclusion to all our efforts for isolating those appropriate mental tools to use for human deciding. (Opens under a separate browser - one large page.)

Books and Software: For interested readers, hundreds of thousands of book titles have been included at this site — special thanks to Barnes & Noble! I would encourage you to search for the titles at your local library before making a purchase! Legal and General. (4 pages)

Suggested Reading: Harvard Business Review: "...brings to life the insights and best practices of business thinkers and leaders from around the world. Every month, HBR delivers ideas powerful enough to change not only what people think, but also what they do." Every manager should familiarize his or herself with the pertinent advice that these business leaders and educators — past and present — have had and do have to offer. (one page)

Suggested Reading: The New York Review of Books' Reader's Catalog: “An annotated selection of some 40,000 of the most interesting and informative books in print today.... A carefully selected and continuously updated ‘Dream Library' of dozens of noted writers, scholars and critics." (one page)

Site Awards: We would like to extend our utmost gratitude to these members of our worldwide Net community for bestowing special recognition upon this site with the following Web awards. (one page)

Three More Commandments? - Rules For Behavior: Three rules to help instruct us how to THINK so as to lead better lives. (Opens under a separate browser.)

Linking to this Site: Feel free to copy this GIF and quote the site description. Just right click over the animated GIF and select "Save ... As ...." Thank you!! (one page)

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