In this contemplation associated with a management process, I can say I have a lack of experience in executing decision especially in Crucial Decision Area. I often feel there is something wrong or something not fit yet when I have to decided. As a result I usually feel comfortable to make many scenario with all of its detail but when I face off the compulsion to take a decision/judgment, I have an adversity in it. So I think it is my weakness that to be improved.
At first I have a slightly confused with the starting point to do it. I've known many popular decision making techniques tool both of quantitative and qualitative methods in management. But I think I need something more praticed related with it.
And this is some good tips from "Decision By Objectives - How to Convinces Others That You Are Right" by Ernest H Forman & Mary Ann Selly- 2001; World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd that I think fit to my needs.
I got areas that I should to developed related to my needs according to this book are :
- Prioritize
- Evaluate alternatives
- Allocate resources
- Deliver powerful presentations
- Justify/defend recommendations
- Make meetings more effective
- Improve communications
- Achieve consensus
- Eliminate fifty percent of your business worries
And I've learned too there are common mistakes when making crucial decisions:
- Gathering information and reaching conclusions without thinking about the crux of the issue or how decisions like this one shouldbe made
- Setting out to solve the wrong problem because your framework causes you to overlook attractive options or lose sight of important objectives
- Failing to define the problem in more ways than one, or being unduly influenced by the frames of others
- Failing to collect key factual information because of overconfidence in your assumptions and opinions
- Relying on 'rules of thumb' for crucial decisions, or on the most readily available information
- Trying to keep straight in your head all the information relating to the decision rather than relying on a systematic procedure
- Assuming that a group of smart people will automatically make a good decision even without a good decision process
- Failing to leam from evidence of past outcomes either because you are protecting your ego or because you are tricked by hindsight
- Assuming that experience will make lessons available automatically
- Failing to create an organized approach to understanding your own decision process
That's I got a hindsight to improve my lack in decision making....eventhough there are still many things to learn and do, at least I have a driven factor to do it.....
Very resourceful, a must read. Will share it with my husband! It's very insightful.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks, Saru...I still have a bunch of works to do it...^^
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