Problem Solver: Maximizing Your Strengths to Make Better Decisions

Problem Solver: Maximizing Your Strengths to Make Better Decisions

Problem Solver: Maximizing Your Strengths to Make Better Decisions

Problem Solver: Maximizing Your Strengths to Make Better Decisions

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Overview

Our decisions are expressions of who we are and how we move through the world. Rarely, though, do we examine our decisions or even look inward to consider the psychology of our decision-making. Instead, we often make decisions based on what we call instinct—which relies on cognitive bias, false assumptions, mis-remembering, and mental mistakes. Truthfully, we don’t see the world as it is; we see it as we are.

We can develop self-knowledge about our decision-making styles. We can wake ourselves up to how biases cloud our judgment and impede good decision-making―and we can counter bias. From there, we can transform our decision-making habits to make better big decisions alone and together. Problem Solver provides you with tools to identify:

  • The five basic decision-making approaches, or “Problem Solver Profiles” (PSPs): Adventurer, Detective, Listener, Thinker, and Visionary

  • Your dominant―and secondary―PSPs

  • Tools to assess other peoples’ PSPs

  • Each PSP’s decision-making strengths, blind spots, and biases

  • How your PSP impacts your outlook on life and your risk appetite

  • How to use your PSP to maximize your decision strengths

Replete with real-life examples and replicable strategies to apply new decision-making skills for your immediate benefit, Problem Solver will do more than help you look out into a future; it will equip you to move forward, with confidence, into your future.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798212378543
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Publication date: 04/04/2023
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is an award-winning investigative journalist covering business, economic, and financial news for publications including Barron’s, Pro Publica, Foreign Policy, and the New York Times. She is the founder of CSE Partners, a strategic consulting practice that uses her AREA Method for businesses and individuals, and also teaches the method as an adjunct professor at Columbia University—first at the Graduate School of Journalism and now at the Columbia Business School.



Caroline Shaffer studied theater at the Weber Douglas Academy in London and received her master's degree from the American Conservatory Theater. A voiceover artist in addition to an actor, she has lent her talents to multiple projects ranging from television, film, commercials, and cartoons. An avid reader, she spends her free time reading anything from classics to new releases.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Data of Living
To Know Thyself: How to Use This Book
1. How Do You Decide?
2. Lexicon, Situationality, & Community
3. The Adventurer
4. The Detective
5. The Listener
6. The Thinker
7. The Visionary
8. Hunt Like the Cheetah
9. PSPs & Risk Profiles
10. PSPs & Cognitive Biases
11. Ambiguity versus Uncertainty
12. Using PSPs to Bolster Strengths
13. How PSPs Color Our Relationship with Data
14. Situationality and Dynamic Decision-Making
15. The Relationship between PSPs and Life Outlook

What People are Saying About This

Joshua Musher

Problem Solver is two tools in one. First, its framework of decision-making processes helps you understand, and thereby address, the blind spots in your process. Second, as shown through examples in the book, by applying the framework to peers' processes (personal or professional), you can more effectively communicate by providing information in the way they process it, thereby coming to better decisions.

Van Hutcherson

A revolutionary way of communicating. Until I read this book, I never considered that we all listen differently and that by understanding each archetype's biases, I could learn to be a better communicator. It has changed the way I approach conversation.

Eric Dawson

In Problem Solver, Einhorn demystifies the act of decision-making with a practical and engaging set of tools that help decode the reader's personal style and approach to working with others. Whether you are an experienced leader or just want to strengthen interpersonal relationships, this book is a terrific compass on your journey.

David Bornstein

Problem Solver is not just a book about how to make better decisions. It's a pathway to deeper self-knowledge. Discovering how we decide sheds light on the mystery of our cognition—what we listen for, what we credit, and what we dismiss. Understanding our hidden tendencies and biases is essential to living a more examined and rewarding life.

Liz Landau

Problem Solver helps us understand that who we are is a series of choices and that improving our decision-making can improve the quality of our lives.

Alok Kumar

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn's Problem Solver allows each individual to develop a personal and customized framework for making better decisions. You will learn how to gather the most relevant pieces of information and squeeze out maximum benefit. Consequently, in any decision-making setting, you will be able to minimize the adverse effects of common cognitive biases and fully exploit your strengths. And during this process, you may even be able to answer the question: Who am I?

William Damon

Cheryl Einhorn's Problem Solver is an innovative guide to clear thinking in the face of life's knotty challenges. The book is deeply thoughtful and highly engaging, a winning combination. Full of evocative real-life examples and incisive analyses, Einhorn's book makes for a delightful and informative read.

Adrienne Johnson

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn's decision-making system helped me understand my own approach, both my strengths and my blind spots. In Problem Solver, she provides practical techniques that helped me counter my biases and strengthen my decision-making competency and confidence.

Andrew Mangino

Problem Solver gets us focused on the one big skill that unlocks all the rest; the one self-assessment that sets the stage for every other choice we make about who we are and how we show up in the world; the one lens that sharpens our focus on every situation we face, no matter how challenging. It's impossible to read this and not feel like you're discovering something absolutely core to your happiness and success in life.

Tony Blair

This is a really interesting account of the process of decision-making and why, even if it's shaped in part by instinct honed by experience, there is no substitute for thoughtful analysis. However, Cheryl Strauss Einhorn also shows how that process can be conducted in a way that is conclusive and not merely analytical. The book succeeds in being informative and accessible!

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