Gary Lundquist gave us a long description of what he considers relevant to
the subject of decision making.
His views are totally reasonable and show broad knowledge of decision making.
Still, I have to challenge him to extend his descriptive views to an
actionable, essentially universal approach to leadership and management decision
making. In fact, if it would not be far too cumbersome and inappropriate here, I
could show how a sound and comprehensive decision making concept could satisfy
all the definitional concerns and be appropriately inclusive of all the
others.
I am offering a decision making process that addresses philosophical and
psychological issues as it proceeds through the intuitive or conscious steps. It
can serve as foundation for practical courses and programs and I can
demonstrate its practicality and soundness, though not easily. Because there are many
subtle issues that are critical to understanding, it takes some time and
effort on both sides - mine and the person(s) who are seriously interested in
exploring what I am trying to say. After that has been cleared, then expansion,
concerns, other relevant issues can be most helpful all around.
For those colleagues who may suspect that I have a business objective here,
let me assure you that I no longer have a pecuniary one - that ratrace is
largely behind me. I am merely trying to spread a concept on which I have worked
rather successfully for more than 20 years but which is not widely known.
Despite some largely tangential resistance to widespread understanding (much of it
based on differing rather peripheral needs for definitions of words, and on
assumptions about context), I have become convinced that it can be of
considerable benefit to management and leadership education and development - at least
as a first step toward better, more appropriate, but equally practical and
universal approaches.
Cheers,
Erwin (Rausch)
didacticra@aol.com and
erausch@kean.edu