Effective Decision Making for Lawyers

Effective Decision Making for Lawyers: The Impact of Quality Decisions

Effective Decision Making for Lawyers begins with understanding the importance of making quality decisions. The quality of our life and our professional success hinges largely on the quality of decisions we make. As attorneys, our choices can affect not just our careers, but also the lives of our clients.

Cognitive Blind Spots: Impairing our Decision Making

Effective Decision Making for Lawyers involves recognizing and overcoming cognitive blind spots. These are psychological barriers that can distort our judgment and impair our decision-making process even before we start making a decision. Therefore, knowing these cognitive glitches is the first step to overcoming them.

Show Notes

• Read Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo (will help you develop your “figure it out” muscle)
• Read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (and examine your thinking with more examples like the “baseball and ball” test)
• Read The Great Mental Models, Vol. 1 by Rhiannon Beaubien and Shane Parrish (An overview of key “thinking principles”)
• Visit Farnham St. Blog (An ongoing examination of key “thinking principles”)
• Listen to The Knowledge Project podcast (An ongoing discussion of key “thinking principles”)
• Listen to Tim Ferriss Show podcast (will help you find successful people to model and learn how they made good decisions)
• Listen to Mixergy podcast with Andrew Warner (will help you find successful people to model and learn how they made good decisions)
• Read Post-Corona by Scott Galloway (Discover the powerful trends that are driving radical change now, and what you should do to capitalize opportunities and meet challenges)
• Read Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke (Develop better decision-making skills in general)
• Read The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel (Develop better decision-making skills regarding finance)
• Read Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Business, and Life by Rory Sutherland (to understand how some things work even though they don’t make sense, and vice-versa)

General Resources

• Check out my Inner Circle (to participate in ongoing discussions about tech tools I discuss and recommend)
• Check out this Law-Tech Assessment if you want specific recommendations for improving based on the technology you’re using in your practice
• Click for a list of the Best Tech Tools for Lawyers
• Subscribe to: The 80/20 Principle newsletter (it’s free).

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