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Indecision can be fatal -- just ask Hamlet. Apt, then, that while studying at KaosPilot (part design school, part consultancy) in Denmark, Roman Tschäppeler (left) and Mikael Krogerus (right) decided to write The Decision Book. Its aim: to free the hesitant from their quivering with a toolkit of 50 models for strategic thinking. "Everyone struggles with decisions," says Krogerus, a 34-year-old journalist. "How can you become more effective? With [the information overload of] new media, this question is very important."
Published in English for the first time in January (Profile Books, £9.99), The Decision Book is a European bestseller featuring simple infographics attached to each idea. It's a format the authors hit on when they noticed that their most creative lecturers expressed complex ideas graphically. "If you make a drawing of a concept, you force yourself to narrow it down to what it's really about," explains Krogerus, who is currently based in Zurich.
He frequently reaches for the "Eisenhower matrix" when his to-do list gets congested, and he found the "rubber-band" model invaluable for resolving to work freelance. Wired asked him to enlighten us with three life-enhancing visuals, as shown in the following gallery.
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