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How to Avoid Making Decisions (2)

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Pass the buck: Pass off the responsibility of making the decision to someone else; do not make decisions by yourself, but bring in someone to blame if things go wrong.

Correct answer: (b) buck

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Have second thoughts: Second thoughts have aborted more useful decisions than all the difficult circumstances and overwhelming obstacles fate could ever throw at you; and undermining your authenticity by succumbing to someone else's second thoughts is a subtle and seductive form of self-abuse.

Correct answer: (b) aborted

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Succumb to failure: Believe that the choices you will make are predestined and you are bound to fail (one gets used to failure) versus the result of hard work and thought.

Correct answer: (a) bound

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Set up a committee: A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled; the greatest things are often accomplished by individual people, not by committees.

Correct answer: (d) cul-de-sac

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False decentralization: this could take place when an authoritative manager assigns accountability to a new 'director of' for every new decision-making problem, but does not delegate any authority.

Correct answer: (a) delegate

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Commonsense-based decisions: If you start making decisions on the basis of conventional wisdom or chatter in the hall, generally speaking, you will make the wrong decision; what is called common sense is almost always uncommon.

Correct answer: (a) conventional

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Failure to understand the problem: This is caused by, among other things, subjectivity, irrational analysis, lateness or procrastination, lack of sensitivity, and lack of focus.

Correct answer: (c) procrastination

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Rationalization to limit the course of actions: This strategy is very popular — stack the cards to make one alternative clearly right and remove all risk.

Correct answer: (d) stack

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Information: Some information gathered is not valid — decisions are often made first and information sought to support the solution, or much of the information gathered is irrelevant to the decision-making.

Correct answer: (c) irrelevant

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False alternative: This attempts to box the decision-maker into a corner from which there is no escape except to accept the alternative.

Correct answer: (a) box

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