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Decision-Making And Thinking Like Leaders And CEOs (Udemy.com)

Boost Decisiveness | Decision-making process | Data-Driven decisions | Stop indecision | Compromise | Logical fallacies

Created by: Alex Genadinik

Last updated October 2026

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What you will learn

  • Make decisions to 10X professional and personal life outcomes
  • See how Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Paul Graham do their decision-making
  • See Neuroscience research about decision-making
  • Balance emotions and logic in your decision-making
  • How to stay mentally alert to make many decisions you have to make during each day
  • Real-life examples of decision-making in common business scenarios
  • Learn logic and logical fallacies
  • When to trust your intuinion, gut reaction, and how to enhance it with logic and reasoning
  • PERSONALIZED HELP from the instructor: Join OFFICE HOURS Zoom call with the instructor and students to ask questions directly
  • WORLD-CLASS student support: I answer 99% of student questions within 24 hours
  • Learn the philosophy of compromise: when to compromise, and when to avoid compromising in decision making
  • Increase decisiveness with data-driven decision making

How it compares

Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 27% of them
  • Reviews331#784 of 1,211 by number of reviews
  • Length4.1 hourslonger than 64% of them
  • Last updatedOctober 2026more recently than 99% of them

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Course Description

Improve your short-term and long-term decision-making process, and set your life and business in the optimal direction!


Add layers to your decision-making with proven methods, science, logic, and Emotional Intelligence in you thinking.


MANY DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF CORE DECISIONS


See real-life decision-making examples on business strategy, hiring, firing, project selection, start-up launch, product launch, and many other examples taken from real and practical scenarios.


HOW THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND THE BRAIN MAKE DECISIONS


There are short-term decisions, mid-term decisions, and long-term decisions. In addition, there is even a big difference if you take half a second to make a decision vs. whether you take two seconds to make a decision. Different parts of the brain are activated as seconds pass.


GUT REACTIONS, INTUITION, AND DECISIONS MADE BEFORE THINKING


In this course, you will learn some of the Neuroscience and Biology of your brain. One thing you will learn is how you form gut reactions, impulsive decisions, and decisions based on intuition.

Many emotional, gut reaction decisions are largely made with your Amygdala, and even though they are not always negative, such decisions tend to be more negative, risk-averse, fear-based, and help you avoid bad outcomes.

But you'll also learn how to make your decision making process more sophisticated by allowing other parts of your brain to play a larger role in how you process information and make decisions.


MAKING DECISIONS USING THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX


The Prefrontal Cortex is the part of our brain that handles more complex logic and context. It usually activates a second after the Amygdala, and can add depth of reasoning to your gut reactions. You can take two seconds or days in order to fully process a decision, especially if it's a complex and highly-impactful one.


CASE STUDIES OF HOW SUCCESSFUL CEOS MAKE DECISIONS


Learn how Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Paul Graham approach decision-making. Some of them are more or less risk-averse, but all of them have been successful in gigantic projects.


LOGIC AND LOGICAL FALLACIES


Of course, it will help your decision-making if you immerse yourself in a little big of logic and learn logical fallacies, so you don't fall into those pitfalls! So we'll cover that as well.


RECENTLY ADDED: PHILOSOPHY OF COMPROMISE


Compromise is a part of decision-making, but it's a polarizing and controversial concept. Some people learn to appreciate the benefits of compromising, while others reject it as a go-to option.

The truth is that it is a viable tool for some scenarios, but far from all scenarios.

Compromise helps you avoid conflict, stagnation, and disagreement. But the problem with compromise when it comes to decision-making is that it makes you agree to something that isn't as accurate or ideal as you'd prefer. In this course, we'll discuss when to use compromise, and when to avoid it.


STOP INDECISION


You'll also learn how to stop indecision, and become more decisive. A part of stopping indecision is boosting your confidence and trusting your intuition, but you can strengthen your decisions and make them more accurate by using a data-driven decision making approach.


DATA-DRIVEN DECISION MAKING


You'll also see a real-world case study of my own data-driven decision making process. I'll show you how I use Excel to visualize and analyze data to help me interpret my company's data in order to make sound, logical, data-driven decisions.


Invest in your future! Enroll today!

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Instructor Details

Alex Genadinik

One of the best teachers in the world because I teach with my heart. I help people get real results, many of whom have reached 7- and 8-figure businesses that I transparently showcase in my courses.


INSTRUCTOR BACKGROUND


3-time bestselling Amazon author, 20 years of successful entrepreneurship experience. Passionate instructor caring deeply about helping students reach full potential.

A number of my books are used in major US universities and high schools.

My current professional interests include Emotional Intelligence and productivity. I am constantly exploring ways to accomplish more with less time.

Additionally, I am interested in SEO, digital marketing, and creativity.

Originally from Ukraine.


COMMITMENT TO STUDENT SUCCESS


I go the extra mile to help students.

Education is more than acquiring knowledge or getting a job. True education is a beautiful experience, enriching your inner life while making your dreams a reality.

Invest in yourself, and give yourself the gift of elevating your life with world-class education, assisted by a caring and experienced instructor who supports you on your journey.


TEACHING AND COACHING HIGHLIGHTS


- 20+ time Udemy bestselling instructor.

- 10+ years of teaching experience.

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Reviews

4.4

331 ratings on Udemy

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By James Keys on 3/28/2025

The lessons have become more nebulas and less understandable since the first review I wrote. Listening to the presenter talk almost solely by storytelling without any visual aids makes it less interesting and harder to engage my attention.

By MATTHEW DENTON on 2/4/2025

I think it could've been better with slides as opposed to the instructor talking on camera 95% of the time.

By Anonymized User on 6/15/2024

Decision making - very good. Much needed topic and discussion. I am going to use the strategies in this course. Very practical and applicable.

By Anonymized User on 6/15/2024

Learning about the extent of emotions in our decision making process, and it's absolutely fascinating. I am already loving this course because I am learning great things.

By Jennifer Leong on 2/15/2024

Would be good to share established (or tested and proven) methodologies used in making business decisions. Would be better to illustrate the approach (the how) using case studies (of different business nature) and examine the downstream impact as a result of decisions made upstream.

By Anonymized User on 8/27/2023

I really like this course, good and valuable lessons about right decision making, being logical, fear and business oriented in the same time, not easy task and great there is a help like this class.

By Anonymized User on 8/25/2023

This is eye opening from the beginning. By lecture two, it already gets interesting and starts to explain how our decision making really works as opposed to how we think it works. Fascinating.

By Anonymized User on 8/25/2023

Good decision making course that starts right on the role of logic in decision making vs. the role of emotions in decision making, and how to use that information to improve my own decision making process and results.

By Anonymized User on 8/22/2023

Good coverage of decision making, starting by separating when we make emotion based decisions and when we make logical decisions, and when we think we are being logical, but are really being emotional - very interesting.

By Anonymized User on 7/26/2023

Good decision making course, interesting in how it's presented, and I am learning from the very beginning. There is no fluff, the course gets right into providing valuable information.

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Overall Score : 88 / 100