TY - ADVS AU - Roberto,Michael A. ED - Teaching Company, TI - The art of critical decision making T2 - The great courses. Business & economics. Business SN - 1598035398 U1 - 658.4 PY - 2009///] CY - Chantilly, VA PB - Teaching Company KW - Decision making KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - Reasoning KW - Nonfiction films KW - lcgft KW - Educational films KW - Instructional films KW - Filmed lectures KW - fast N1 - "The Great courses, Business & Economics"--Container 1; Accompanying course guide book also available; "Course no. 5932"--Disc label; Issued in two containers with two DVDs in each container; Each container consists of: "12 lectures/30 minutes per lecture"; Disc 1: Making high-stakes decisions -- Cognitive biases -- Avoiding decision-making traps -- Framing: risk or opportunity? -- Intuition: Recognizing patterns -- Reasoning by analogy ; Disc 2: Making sense of ambigious situations -- The wisdom of crowds? -- Groupthink: thinking or conforming? -- Deciding how to decide -- Stimulating conflict and debate -- Keeping conflict constructive ; Disc 3: Creativity and brainstorming -- The curious inability to decide -- Procedural justice -- Achieving closure through small wins -- Normal accident theory -- Normalizing deviance ; Disc 4: Allison's model: three lenses -- Practical drift -- Ambigious threats and the recovery window -- Connecting the dots -- Seeking out problems -- Asking the right questions; Producer, Tony Hidenrick ; academic content supervisor, Nancy Eskridge ; camera operators, Jon Leven, Tom Dooley, Jim Allen (et. al.) ; editors, Tony Hidenrick, John McNeill; Lecturer: Professor Michael A. Roberto, Bryant University N2 - Lectures by Dr. David Zarefsky, Professor of Argumentation and Debate and Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, cover the history of rhetoric and debate as well as analysis of different types of arguments in various situations ER -