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"Yes" or "No": The Guide to Better Decisions
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Sales rank 36,016
Customers rating (based on 19 reviews)
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"Yes" or "No," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Spencer Johnson, presents a brilliant and practical system anyone can use to make better decisions, soon and often -- both at work and in personal life. The "Yes" or "No" System lets us: focus on real needs, versus mere wants create better options see the likely consequences of choices and identify and then use our own integrity, intuition, and insight to gain peace of mind, self-confidence, and freedom from fear
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| Publisher | Harper Paperbacks | | Release date | 08/1993 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Paperback |
| | List price | $13.95 | | Our price | $11.92 (you save 14.55%) | | Used price | from $0.68 |
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YES/NO short and sweet
I love Spencer Johnson's books and found this one to be as good as his others. He always makes the points by way of his story and seems to put things in proper order. I enjoyed the book and thought it provided a short, clear process on how to make better decisions. I would recommend it especially to young people who are seeking guidance on making better decisions.
 Outstanding, yet simple advice on seeing the world clearly
Some of the best advice is the simplest, yet our human frailties often make it the most difficult to recognize and follow. When confronting a decision, the most important thing to do is to make sure that all situational modifiers are absent and that you are looking at the conditions as they are, not as you want them to be. That can be a very difficult thing to do, there are enormous social and personal pressures pushing people into a state of denial. Sometimes the best thing that a person in authority can do is to admit that they do not know or understand. There is a natural tendency to think such an admission is equivalent to an admission of incompetence rather than one of relative competence and a facing of reality.
These situations are the primary focus of this book, from determining how critical the decision is to verifying that all aspects and reasonable consequences of the decision are known. This requires a relaxing of the restrictions imposed by personal ego in favor of increasing the chances that the decision would be the correct one.
The metaphor used in the book is of a group of people going on a hike, with the primary character being a young man that needs a bit of direction in his decision-making. A series of situations are set up where in each one he learns a little bit more about how to make decisions, and at the end the young man has enough confidence in himself to face the world and the problems that it presents.
Making decisions is hard; the best alternative rarely waves a flag and announces itself. By reading this book and taking the advice very seriously, you stand a much better chance of identifying which alternative is the best one, independent of how obscure it might be.
Excellent
This book is an excellent quick guide for improving your decision making skills. It also is an easy read by a respected author.
Great for Staff
Again, I bought a single copy to read myself. Due to my preceived value of the message, I purchased more copies to give to key Staff Managers. Being able to discern between "Wants and Needs" is critical in these challenging financial times for our Town.
Another great message!
Haven't read this yet, but I'm sure it will be great like his other books!
I've read and own other books of his, so I'm sure this will be great. I'm currently in school and this will be a help there as well as in my professional life.
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