Staying Awake and Aware

Having completed the reading assignments for Judgement in Managerial Decision Making, I come away with the thought that in order to make sound judgements we must be aware of the issues and biases that may cloud our perceptions.

The early chapters in the book served as a reminder of the different ways of thinking which can cloud our judgements. Being aware of these issues is half the battle. Once we become aware of these issues, we can take steps to combat them. We can devise tests to look for contridictions to the conclusions we anticipate.

Later in the book we learned strategies that will help us battle these assumptions and biases including debiasing one's judgements and developing decision analysis tools.

Implementing the lessons from Judgement in Managerial Decision Making can be difficult. It has to be done with concious intent before it becomes second nature.

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