Deciding under pressure: when enough is enough!

Understand decision-making in critical situations and regain rational judgement when pressure pushes us beyond our limits.

Decision-making biases · Cognitive constraints

Businesses require decisions in increasingly complex situations, under time pressure, stress and sometimes contradictory demands. How can we stay rational and effective when pressure pushes us beyond our limits?

Drawing on real situations from his experience as a pilot and emergency physician, Renaud Emont explores decision-making in a crisis and explains how to work around biases linked to time pressure, mental load and stress.

Practical advice to bring greater rationality to our decisions.

Part 1 · The brain: a machine under constraints

Lack of time, mental load, fatigue and stress.

Part 2 · When the aircraft engine falters

Become aware of cognitive constraints. How do you manage the situation in flight? And in a company?

Part 3 · Deciding how to provide care in a risky situation

How uncertainty and risk create indecision. How an impasse can motivate us and become an asset. And in a company?

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