decision+making

non-technical skills

Decision-making


The importance of good decisions:



What constitutes a good decision?
These apply particularly to urgent and emergency situations rather than strategic decisions where time pressure is minimal. The following are NOT markers of a good decision:
 * 1) Seeks to achieve the task (e.g. getting back to your car if lost) in a safe and effecient way.
 * 2) Is based on the current setting (e.g. lost, no compass) rather than the setting you wishe you were in.
 * 3) Is mindful of capacbilities and limits of all the individuals involved.
 * 4) Results in a feasible course of action (a decision "to use the GPS" when lost is no good if the batteries are flat).
 * 1) A good outcome (this can occur foruitously, even if a bad decision has been made)
 * 2) Good intentions.
 * 3) The bes possible decision if it is made too late to be effected.

The DECIDE mnemonic


Presentation on decision making:[| decision making ssc.pdf]  [|Decision making and problem solving] Groups may make decisions that none of their members would have made alone: a paper on [|"risky shift"] [|tactical decision making] - covers analytical & intuitive approaches

[|article]on recognition primed decision making in a military setting

video on intuition: media type="custom" key="8177774"

Mintzberg on different types of decisions media type="youtube" key="DyvXu3lSSG0?version=3" height="360" width="480"

[|"reverse problem solving"]

 books:
 [|decision making under stress] [|sources of power: how people make decision][|s] (by Gary Klein, who described recognition primed decision making)