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Groupthink is a common pitfall in group decision-making and problem-solving. People feel reluctant to present alternatives, challenge others’ opinions, or express their own opinions. Conditions are ripe for Groupthink when one or more of these f...
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Organizational politics, also known as workplace politics or office politics, can be good or bad. Some definitions include: The use of power and social networking within an organization to achieve changes that benefit the organization or indiv...
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Overconfidence is the tendency to overestimate our ability to make good decisions. Research 1 indicates that the more experience a manager has, the more likely it is that he or she will be overconfident in making decisions. Therefore, awareness o...
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When a manager looks at the world through only one mental window, s/he fails to see other views. This may lead to the use of outdated, or even wrong, frames. Frame Blindness is setting out to solve the wrong problem (or failure to adequately sol...
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Intuition alone is not sufficient for making complex, crucial decisions. The human brain is limited, in both short-term memory capacity and discrimination ability, to about seven things - plus or minus two. Decision-making for every complex, cruci...
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Last Updated: 09/14/2022
in Wikis Being a good leader requires more than just knowing the right way to do things. It also requires knowing how to choose the right things to do . Decision-making is arguably the most difficult, and the most essential, task a manager performs. Effect...
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Last Updated: 06/02/2022
in Release Notes June 2, 2022 | Version 6.11.1 (243a0f6cd247) Bug Fixes Fixed issue on Collaborative Brainstorming where the added elements on the whiteboard are disappearing on evaluators' screen Fixed issue on Allocate Time Periods where the copy/paste option...
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Last Updated: 05/12/2022
in Synthesize Overall Results The Objectives Chart page displays a variety of charts for objectives and sub-objectives. It displays the same priorities as the Objectives Grid . Columns Chart By default, the Columns chart is displayed. The columns chart below has the hier...
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The objectives hierarchy can be created, viewed, and edited from the DEFINE MODEL >Review/Refine Model > Objectives page. A new model will show only " Goal" : The "Goal" is an overall statement of the decision and can be edited. The fi...
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Roles can be assigned to Participant Groups (custom groups or a pre-defined group called "All Participants") as well as to individual participants. The resultant role for a participant is a combination of the roles assigned to any group to which th...