When given a moment to think about decisions we make in our daily life, we may realize that it can be more of a struggle than we like to admit. Clear Thinking in an Age of Hype, Nonsense, and Anxiety outlines a user-friendly way to improve your decision-making process, about all types of decisions, big and small. A number of practical “hacks” lead you through how to decide and how to communicate decisions. The book shows the importance of this process and how it can fundamentally change your life.

Clear Thinking in an Age of Hype, Nonsense, and Anxiety is a quick and worthwhile read. Project Managers should read it and keep it on their desks as a quick reference guide for making and communicating decisions. It's full of practical hacks and examples that will help cut through the clutter.

The vast amount of information from numerous sources and platforms, coupled with competing media narratives as well as personal bias leave most people ill-equipped to evaluate what is fact from fiction. Phil Clampitt tackles this critical issue in his new book, Clear Thinking In An Age Of Hype, Nonsense, and Anxiety. The book provides readers with a practical model for sorting through the noise and clutter that dominates news sources at every level. Phil Clampitt's model provides the reader with sound techniques on how to identify the plusses and minuses of competing policies, narratives, and news reports. Just as important, he provides questioning techniques that will help the reader become a more discerning evaluator of competing positions. This is a great guide for decision makers.

Phil Clampitt provides us with a framework for negotiating the complexities of information overload, uncertainty, and distorted “facts.” Using three fundamentals, he offers a practical tool for achieving clear thinking and reasoned outcomes. This book provides the reader with a process for thinking about the relatively mundane decisions (such as choices about recreational activities and everyday purchases) to the crucial (such as career and investment decisions). The insights provided here are well-timed for today and an essential guide for every decision maker.

Phil Clampitt provides us with a framework for negotiating the complexities of information overload, uncertainty, and distorted “facts.” Using three fundamentals, he offers a practical tool for achieving clear thinking and reasoned outcomes. This book provides the reader with a process for thinking about the relatively mundane decisions (such as choices about recreational activities and everyday purchases) to the crucial (such as career and investment decisions). The insights provided here are well-timed for today and an essential guide for every decision maker. Clear Thinking in an Age of Hype, Nonsense and Anxiety offers readers a masterfully simple approach to unclutter their thinking when making decisions. A must-read book with simply strategies and tactics for every leader looking to guide personal and team thinking.

An essential guide for navigating our disinformation world! Clear thinking in and Age of Hype, Nonsense, and Anxiety is exceedingly difficult to achieve in our technology-driven, virtually sophisticated, complex organizations. In these pages, Phil Clampitt gives us a highly useable, readily applicable tool for engaging and succeeding in today’s information-intensive world.

As in medicine, critical decision making is an essential skill for most professions. Phil Clampitt’s framework is a structured process that helps simplify and improve decisions made in the face of information overload and constant noise. Whether in your professional or private life, the tools and insights provided will undoubtedly prove useful. This book is a fast and easy read with clever supporting hacks.

In all of his work, Phil Clampitt has a skill to bring a universe of uncertainty back to practical sensibilities. This universe of uncertainty is the hype, the rhetoric, the nonsense and the extreme positions that challenge us every day. Clear thinking and critical thinking are the skills to boil all this down to actionable nuggets. This piece by Phil does just that.