Decision Making

Monday's class dealt a lot with decision making. This is one area that I truly struggle with. I am completely awful with making decisions. I consider myself to be a more "go with the flow" type of person. I even have trouble deciding which restaurant I want to go to when a group of friends gets together for dinner. I would rather agree with someone than argue with what I want.

I recognize that this is a poor quality to possess if you want to be an effective leader. Professor Feinberg stressed the importance of decision making in effective leadership. He mentioned that a good leader should know the desired outcome of a decision before he or she even discusses the options with the team.

This is definitely an area of leadership I need to work to improve on. I've had to make a lot of important decisions in my life here recently. I received two really good job offers for after graduation. I obviously had to decide which offer I wanted to accept. Both were with stable companies with similar training programs. I weighed all of my options to reach a decision that I am truly happy with.

I am going to start using this approach with a lot of my decisions. While actually looking at the pros and cons, I will be able to come to a logical and reasonable decision more easily. 

M