Learning to decide wisely and becoming happy: Studies show the effect of training on decision-making behaviour
People who make smart decisions in important private and professional matters increase their chances of greater life satisfaction. The cognitive skills required for this can be significantly honed through training. This is the conclusion reached by researchers at the University of Bayreuth in recent empirical studies published in the European Journal of Operational Research. Courses lasting several weeks with participants of different age and occupational groups demonstrably strengthened their ability to make well-considered choices in difficult decision-making situations.
Give yourself a nudge: How to ‘nudge’ yourself to systematically make better decisions professionally and personally
Decisions are the only way we can actively influence what is important to us or our organization. Everything else ‘happens’. It is therefore surprising that decision-makers leave much potential for improvement untapped. In the September City Talk, numerous tips will be given on how we can systematically make better decisions and thus achieve what is important to us. About it speaks Prof. (FH) PD Dr. habil. Johannes Siebert from the Management Center Innsbruck.
International recognition for MCI Professor Johannes Siebert
Renowned Alliance for Decision Education around Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler accepts Johannes Siebert into Advisory Council | Recognition for research achievements in the area of individual and organizational decision behavior. MCI-News 12. August 2020 A high-ranking recognition has recently been announced at the Entrepreneurial School®: Johannes Siebert, Professor at the MCI Department of Business and Management and an internationally recognized expert in the study of individual and organizational decision-making behavior, has been accepted into the top-class advisory board of the renowned Alliance for Decision Education around Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman. With his expertise, he will contribute to helping children and young people learn to make conscious and well-considered decisions away from the usual “try & error”. The inclusion of Johannes Siebert in the Advisory Council of the Alliance for Decision Education will help to further increase the international networking and visibility of the MCI. Workshops on…
Die Ziele des Islamischen Staats: Neue Studie zu den Führungspersonen des IS und seinen Anhängern
What does the Islamic State want? Dr. Johannes Siebert at the University of Bayreuth and U.S. researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have systematically analyzed the IS’s objectives for the first time. The study was recently published in the renowned INFORMS journal Decision Analysis.
Deciding without tunnel vision – How the creative search for alternatives pays off
“There is no alternative!” was how British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher justified her economic and social policy reform program in the late 1970s. This slogan was soon caricatured in the media as the “TINA” principle. But do decisions without alternatives even exist? And what does their supposed lack of alternatives say about their quality? Recent studies resulting from a close collaboration between Bayreuth economist Dr. Johannes Siebert and U.S. decision theorist Prof. Dr. Ralph L. Keeney show: It is precisely when people look for different alternatives in a creative and goal-oriented way that the quality of their decisions increases. The two scientists present their results in the renowned journal “Operations Research”.