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Beat decision paralysis. Master a repeatable process for making better decisions in business and life.

Annie Duke

Make Better Decisions

Only two things determine how your life turns out — luck and the quality of your decisions. I'll teach you a decision-making process to help you master the second.

You’re an entrepreneur who wants to be faster and more effective across the dozens of decisions you make every day.

You’re an executive-level decision maker looking to accelerate your team’s success by teaching them how to make high-quality decisions.

You’re an investor who’s tired of letting volatility drive your decisions and ready to systematize your thinking.

Is this course for you?

You'll learn

Every decision is a bet on a forecast of the future. You have limited resources to figure out which prediction will have the best return in the long run. The solution: my 6-step process for better decision making.

How to make better decisions.

Why doesn't your gut make great decisions? The answer: cognitive bias. I'll show you how to get to the outside view — what is true of the world independent of your own point of view.

What gets in the way of making good decisions.

Teams don’t always produce higher-quality decisions — they just have higher confidence. You'll learn how to find out when people disagree and normalize dissent in groups.

Making effective decisions on a team.

There's a time-accuracy trade-off with decisions. I'll teach you my best frameworks for figuring out how fast you can go when making decisions.

Making faster decisions.

Session 1. Why all decisions are bets: Uncertainty, Resulting, Bias, and Base Rates.

How to elicit higher quality feedback, the purpose of groups, creating an artifact of your decisions,

Session 2. Discover, Discuss, Decide.

Session 3. Applied group decision making.

Session 4. On Quitting: Monkeys and pedestals and kill criteria.

Learn strategies to help identify which decisions you can go fast or slow with.

Session 5. Decision Agility: When to go fast and when to go slow.

Session 6. Applied decision making exercise + program wrap-up.

Course syllabus

Head of Manager Research and Investment Product Management, PNC

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Reduce bias and noise, anticipate risk, and learn how to make good decisions, even when you have incomplete information.

Meet your instructor

Monday, April 28, 2025

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Thursday, May 1, 2025

Monday, May 5, 2025

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Monday, May 12, 2025

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Monday, May 19, 2025

Make Better Decisions 

Course Schedule

Talks at Google: Annie Duke on Thinking in Bets

Hear from 3 students who took Annie's course:

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Active learning, not passive watching

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Interactive and project-based

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

Learn with a cohort of peers

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Since Make Better Decisions teaches job-relevant skills, you could get tuition reimbursement from their employer.

Use your company's Professional Development budget

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