Author: Joachim Dehais, PMP, VP Volunteers

Looking for something short, sweet, and that is a good inventory of decision making tools? The Decision Book - Fifty Models For Strategic Thinking, by Mikael Krogerus, will make you that much happier.

Eminently simple in concept, this book contains 50 different graphical and verbal systems to structure your thoughts and make decisions. The finest and perhaps most logical addition this book gives is a map of other tools, according to whether you are working towards yourself or others, and whether you wish to understand or act.

Based on this, you are free to browse classical tools such as:

- The Eisenhower matrix for prioritisation

- The SWOT analysis for strategy setting

- The prisoner's dilemma to understand conflict and group decisions

- Retrospective tools to avoid repeating mistakes

- The Hershey-Blanchard system to manage collaborators according to experience

- The Uffe-Elbaek and Johari principles to understand ourselves and how others perceive us

While the book adds little in t erms of content, it provides simple explanations to recurrent problems and how to solve them.This alone makes it useful as a quick reference for when you are indecisive, like a dictionary of tools. Remains only to remember to use it.

Joachim Dehais, PhD, PMP, TOGAF, CCBA