Chapter 9: The Art of Making Intelligent Decisions Learning Outcome Assessment 2 Sec/102 Summer 2012 Dr Ali Alghazo Names: Jehad AlGhamdi: 200900201 Bader Al-Hamed: 200901007
Introduction: In our everyday life we face a typical situation or problem that requires an executive and wise decision from ourselves. Whether big or small decisions we face, they all are important to be acted upon in a respectful manner. Using the critical thinking techniques to help us enhance and rationalize our decisions. To become an effective decision maker you have to question every possible consequences of each decision.
Evaluating our Decision Making: We must understand the decision that we are going to make by identifying and evaluating the decision itself. Similarly, trying to think from different perspective to avoid unethical decision making that could lead to harming others who can be affected by this decision. The evaluation of decisions helps avoid unpleasant consequences that could be in the near or far future.
The Logic of Decision Making: This kind of decision making can be established by first recognizing that you are facing an important decision. You start looking for alternatives that could help you in choosing the right decision. By studying the alternatives and evaluating them, that will help you to choose the best alternatives. It’s only common sense!
Recognize the Need for Important Decisions: It’s necessary to know how important and critical a decision is, so we must identify what’s needed to make such a decision. By identifying how important the decision is, you can break it down or start developing alternatives to help in choosing the best decision. Many decisions go wrong because of failure to accurately identifying the alternatives. The failure comes from either thinking that something is an alternative when it’s not or failing to recognize an alternative by not thinking out of the box.
Putting More Time into your Decision Making: It’s very important to put more time into your decision making in order to help improve it and to help finding the best alternatives possible. The down factor is that we lose an incredible amount of time through bad decision making, for example people who often lose lots of years through a bad career choice. This could have been avoided if they took the time to consider what they really want. By putting more time into their decision making, it will definitely save them a tremendous amount of time in identifying their life goals.
Dealing With one Major Decision at a Time: By doing so, it will help achieve the best decision for each situation. We need to take all the time needed or possible to think our decisions through. Speed thinking frequently doesn’t assist us think well through our decisions. The more things we do simultaneously the better the chances to mess things up. In some situations that are not right to do, some individuals have plenty of time to think deeply about something, but they choose not to think at a considerable amount of time.
Conclusion: So in conclusion, we need to recognize how important and delicate decisions are so that we can decide how many alternatives to find and how much time to spend to choose the best decision. We need to think clearly and to think outside the box and from different perspectives about the alternatives, particularly when it’s a long term decisions.
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